Quotes About Contentment

I try to teach my heart not to want nothing it can't have

If she come, I be happy. If she don't, I be content.

I'm not courting death; I've far too many books left to read.

until we make peace with our homes, we can never quite make peace with ourselves.

He was not afraid, in fact he was content to go: So much that had been pleasurable in his life was now beyond his capacity, and that he could not bear.

Life was good, and already she understood that to be aware of happiness when you were actually feeling it, and not just in retrospect, was to be happy indeed.

Each man was born to his degree, and a happy man was one who did not question his place in life.

As the wise Cicero said, "If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

know winning isn't everything and if all you care about is winning, you'll feel empty—but I haven't won enough to feel empty yet.

Your ideal weight is the weight you happen to be when you can look at yourself naked in a full-length mirror and be happy with your shape.

Whenever you find yourself in a situation where you would have written a cheque or handed over your credit card, instead of feeling like you're somehow missing out, think, 'Isn't this marvellous! I don't have to incur any new debts.

artificial void

No more to say, and nothing to weep for

Forget pleasure and Ambition

I find a certain degree of loneliness not only tolerable but deeply pleasurable.

Wherever you are, I will be happy as long as I'm with you." August 2009 Dear Reader: For twelve books, I've written about the types of evil men and women commit against their fellow human

Siempre que le amaban se había sentido igual: satisfecho y frío como un témpano

At about this time something occurred which caused my cup of joy, already full, to overflow on all sides, a circular cataract of bliss.

happiness may come if not sought, but if looked for will never be seen;

To the starving man, bread is beautiful. To the homeless man, a roof is beautiful. To the drunkard, wine is beautiful. Only those who want for nothing else need find beauty in a lump of rock. "Stolicus

the more you give a man, the more he demands, and the less happy he becomes. No one ever appreciates what he gets for nothing.

You have to learn to love the small things in life... you have to love the small things, when you've nothing else.

Perhaps we look at others and see only the things we don't have.

There are few ills a good cup of tea won't help with.