Quotes About Contentment

Rejoice in what you have. Power, wealth, fame, they are ghosts! They are like the breeze, impossible to hold. There is no grand destination. Every path ends at the Last Door. Revel in the sparks one person strikes from another.

You seem happy enough," came Monza's voice, "for a man about to risk his life." Shiver's opened his eyes and turned his grin on her. "I've made peace with myself." "Good for you. That's the hardest war of all to win." "Didn't say I won. Just stopped fighting." "I'm starting to think that's the only victory worth a shit," she muttered, almost to herself.

Prefer to eat the eggs I've got, my king, rather'n the ones still up in the tree.

Ever think maybe you drink too much?" asked Wonderful. Clover smacked his lips. "Too much would, by definition, be too much. I find however much I drink is just the right amount.

A grin spread across his face. Seeing it made her smile. Her first in a while. Hardly felt like her mouth should bend that way.

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

swear, the more you give a man, the more he demands, and the less happy he becomes. No one ever appreciates

?oveku koji umire od gladi lep je hleb. Besku?niku je lep krov. Pijanici je lepo vino. Samo oni kojima ništa ne nedostaje trebaju lepotu tražiti u komadu kamena. Cosca

It can be a terrible curse for a man to get everything he ever dreamed of. If the shining prizes turn out somehow to be empty baubles, he is left without even his dreams for comfort. All

who tries to please everyone pleases no one at all.

Broad kept sweeping. He'd learned in Styria there's a lot of things that are better not thought about. Couldn't be a coincidence that the happiest men Broad had ever known were generally the stupidest.

Nada es para siempre. La vida consiste en aprovechar bien lo que te encuentras en el camino. Si un hombre no está satisfecho con lo que tiene… bueno, muy posiblemente tampoco se quedará satisfecho con lo que no tiene. - Brand

It is easy to forget how much you have, when your eyes are always fixed on what you have not. "Something

Some men are like water. No matter how high they are lifted, they always yearn to return to the appropriate level.

Savine had once felt nowhere more at home than here, flitting from one opportunity to another, hopes and dreams left wrecked in her wake. Now all she wanted was to slit the laces of her corset and sag down with her children, slap the stopper from the decanter and never put it back.

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.

Never to want for anything, or work for anything, or show the tiniest grain of self-discipline in a whole life must give a man a strange outlook on the world,

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

Couldn't be a coincidence that the happiest men Broad ever knew were generally the stupidest.

Say this life and let it be enough, for once.

Gratitude is a mindful awareness of the benefits in one's life.

I've come to the end of another book alive. At times like this I'm always at a loss for words.

The point is, true happiness has nothing to do with pleasure, because the reliance on feeling good from such intensely stimulating things only moves us further from real joy.

The more whole you feel the less lack you experience, and therefore the less you want.