Quotes About Contentment

After all those years of doing a live, hour-and-a-half show every week, I've got nothing more I need to prove.

I've been going long enough to prove what I wanted to prove, to get the girl I wanted to get, to make the money I wanted to make, to drink all the beer I wanted to drink. I've played - not exactly everywhere, but I've played enough places.

I don't need to prove myself through competition anymore.

I think that once you've had a few No. 1s in your career that you've kind of proven yourself, and I don't feel the need to prove anything anymore.

I was born into a loving family who was able to provide me with everything.

The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.

Better a humble heart, a lowly life. Untouched by greatness let me live - and live. Not too little, not too much: there safety lies.

The good and wise lead quite lives

Amongst mortals no man is happy; wealth may pour in and make one luckier than another, but none can happy be.

I wish you joy. To spend life's fleeting days mid joy that never meets an evil hour is to be blessed beyond compare.

Necio es el mortal que, creyéndose siempre feliz, se abandona al placer: la fortuna, cual furiosa delirante, salta aquí y allá, y a ninguno concede perpetua dicha

To have learnt to live on the common level Is better. No grand life for me, Just peace and quiet as I grow old. The middle way, neither great nor mean, Is best by far, in name and practice. To be rich and powerful brings no blessing; Only more utterly Is the prosperous house destroyed, when gods are angry.

Let mortal man keep to his own Mortality, and not expect too much.

For of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.

The man who would prefer great wealth or strength             more than love, more than friends, is diseased of soul.

Para mi quiero, antes que un rico, un Pobre que tenga un alma grande.

Pray the gods do not envy your happiness!

no man, is ever happy, no one.

Shadows are cool and peaceful places for those whose minds are overstocked with treasure.

Happiness can be frightening when one is not accustomed to the sensation.

The healthy householder understands and appreciates the energy of life and therefore lives in moderation and contentment in order to conserve and nourish qi, or life energy.

Finally, to embrace simplicity is to delight in household activities such as cooking, eating a good meal, caring for loved ones, enjoying the sexual company of a partner, nourishing the body by doing gentle exercise, and freeing the mind from anxiety and negativity by knowing contentment.

It was Christmas morning, and all was right with the world.

He lit his cigar and sat back at peace with the world; I, too, was at peace in another world than his. We both were happy. He talked of Julia and I heard his voice, unintelligible at a great distance, like a dog's barking miles away on a still night.