Quotes About Contentment

Happy is it, indeed, for me that my heart is capable of feeling the same simple and innocent pleasure as the peasant whose table is covered with food of his own rearing, and who not only enjoys his meal, but remembers with delight the happy days and sunny mornings when he planted it, the soft evenings when he watered it, and the pleasure he experienced in watching its daily growth.

Gracious Providence, to whom I owe all my powers, why didst thou not withhold some of those blessings I possess, and substitute in their place a feeling of self-confidence and contentment?

I could be living the best and happiest of lives if only I were not a fool.

I am contented, happy, and consequently a bad historian.

I'm glad that I am not young in so thoroughly finished a world.

We must note the curious fact that people are not content with what is simple to understand, but go straight for the more complex problems which they will perhaps never grasp. What is simple to grasp is quite usable and useful, and can keep us occupied for a whole lifetime if it satisfies and stimulates us.

We so frequently feel that we are lacking in many qualities which another person apparently possesses; and then we furnish such a person with everything we oirselves possess and witj a certain idealistic complacemny in addition. And in this fashion a Happy Being is finished to perfection--the creature of our imagination.

Content and peace of mind are valuable things: I could wish, my dear friend, that these precious jewels were less transitory.

Por qué será que lo que colma de felicidad al hombre es al mismo tiempo la fuente de sus desgracias?

A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath.

Oh, I envy you!" he cried. "You are still nourished by yesterday's alms, but yesterday's happiness no longer nourishes me.

Wir Menschen beklagen uns oft, dass der guten Tage so wenig sind und der schlimmen so viel - meist mit Unrecht. Wenn wir immer ein offenes Herz hätten, das Gute zu genießen, das Gott für jeden Tag bereitet, wir würden alsdann auch Kraft genug haben, das Übel zu ertragen, wenn es kommt.

The day dawns smiling, rational and bright, We're tangled in a net of dreams at night. From green fields we come home contentedly, 11770 A bird croaks: meaning what?—catastrophe! Bedeviled by superstitions, we imagine The least thing is a sign, a portent, omen. And so we tremble, feeling lost, alone. The door creaks and we stiffen—there's no one.

Willst du immer weiterschweifen? Sieh, das Gute liegt so nah. Lerne nur das Glück ergreifen, denn das Glück ist immer nah.

In the same way, the most restless of travellers ends up pining for his homeland once again, and discovers in his cottage, in the arms of his wife and amidst his children, and in the labours that are necessary to support them, that joy he sought in vain in the wide world.

My life contains so many other things; I have my children, my grandchildren, my two dogs and a big place in the country. I have my own life.

If I live the life I'm given, I won't be scared to die.

The purpose of life is to be happy.

I have a very good life, a high quality of life. I have both money and time. No one has that.

The great thing about getting older is living life.

Me? I had no dreams. No longings. Dreams only set you up for disappointment. Plus, you had to have a life to have dreams of a better life.

Money is central to our lives. Yet money is not of central importance. It has nothing whatsoever to do with the lasting values that make life worth living.

Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Think joy, talk joy, practice joy, share joy, saturate your mind with joy, and you will have the time of your life today and every day all your life.