Quotes About Contentment

You mustn't think so far ahead. Just think about tomorrow, and then take one thing at a time.

Happiness is making the most of what you have, and riches is making the most of what you've got.

And she [Joanna Crayshaw] had discovered that if you were safe and happy and loved, it became easy to laugh at yourself. ['A Place Like Home']

you've got enough

I am not in search of friends and confidences. I'm concentrating on being. I live each hour, one by one. My mind is quiet and still. I am no longer waiting for time to pass

Money doesn't make you happy, Mom insists, whipping carrots and lettuce out of the cart. Money doesn't make you laugh when you're lonely, or make you full of contentment on Christmas morning.

These are the four that are never content: that have never been filled since the dew began- Jacala's mouth, and the glut of the kite, and the hands of the ape, and the eyes of Man.

There's no jealousy in the grave.

The toad beneath the harrow knows Where every separate tooth-point goes ; The butterfly upon the road Preaches contentment to that toad.

It is better to lie quiet in the mud than to be disturbed on good bedding.

Kim dived into the happy Asiatic disorder which, if you only allow time, will bring you everything that a simple man needs.

If I can attain Heaven for a pice, why should you be envious?

But no sooner had he walked to the city wall than the monkeys pulled him back, telling him that he did not know how happy he was, and pinching him to make him grateful.

They gave him a little piece of raw meat. Rikki-tikki liked it immensely, and when it was finished he went out into the veranda and sat in the sunshine and fluffed up his fur to make it dry to the roots. Then he felt better.

Do not pay too much attention to fame, power, or money. Some day you will meet a person who cares for none of these, and then you will know how poor you are.

When you find out you can live without it, go along not thinking about it.

Interessi e piaceri immediati non possono riempire tutta la vita di un uomo. [La luce che si spense]

Money dominates everybody except those who do not want money. Rudyard Kipling in an address at McGill University in 1907

La Envidia es la Religión de los Mediocres. (Pedro Vidal en El Juego del Ángel)

If you haven't the money to buy the quality you want, go without, don't compromise.

In those first days they were happy.

There is a discrepancy between our craving and the world we live in, between our expectations and the way things are. We want the world to be other than it is. Our craving is based on a fundamental misjudgement of the situation; a judgement that assumes that when our craving gets what it wants we will be happy, that when our craving possesses the objects of its desire we will be satisfied. But

He can take it and leave it, which is a much happier condition than having to do one or the other. He's not sure how this

How do you stay cheerful?' I said. 'I don't mind being alive,' he said.