Quotes About Contentment

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life. All that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness. Imperial Hotel note paper, Tokyo Japan, 1922

A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.

There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.

I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves—such an ethical basis I call more proper for a herd of swine.

Learn to be happy through the good fortunes and joys of your friends and not through senseless quarrels. If you allow these natural feelings to blossom within you, your every burden will seem lighter or more bearable to you, you will find your own way through patience, and you will spread joy everywhere.

A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires will sooner or later always lead to bitter disappointment.

Un uomo felice è troppo soddisfatto del presente per pensare molto al futuro

A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell on the future.

I also consider that plain living is good for everybody, physically and mentally.

El año pasado pregunté a un conocido diplomático norteamericano de la Sociedad de Naciones por qué no amenazaban al Japón con un embargo comercial si continuaba con su campaña de violencia.Nuestros intereses económicos son demasiado poderosos fue la respuesta. ¿Cómo es posible ayudar a los hombres si son capaces de contentarse con este tipo de argumentos?

Le cose più preziose della vita non sono quelle che si comprano con il danaro

The ordinary objects of human endeavour – property, outward success, luxury – have always seemed to me contemptible.

It is at last beginning to be realized that great wealth is not necessary for a happy and satisfactory life.

A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness.

Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents, grumbled Jo, lying on the rug. It's so dreadful to be poor! sighed Meg, looking down at her old dress. I don't think it's fair for some girls to have plenty of pretty things, and other girls nothing at all, added little Amy, with an injured sniff. We've got Father and Mother, and each other, said Beth contentedly from her corner.

Pero parece que cuanto más se recibe más se quiere...

And that, put in the Director sententiously, that is the secret of happiness and virtue — liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny.

Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can't.

Well, I'd rather be unhappy than have the sort of false, lying happiness you were having here.

we were back at home, and I had returned to that reassuring but profoundly unsatisfactory state known as 'being in one's right mind.

Everybody strains after happiness, and the result is that nobody's happy.

But, Bernard, you're saying the most awful things.' 'Don't you wish you were free, Lenina?' 'I don't know what you mean. I am free. Free to have the most wonderful time. Everybody's happy nowadays.' He laughed, 'Yes, Everybody's happy nowadays. We begin giving children that at five. But wouldn't you like to be free to e happy in some other way, Lenina? In your own way, for example; not in everybody else's way.