Quotes About Contentment

What is the good of life if its chief element, and that which must always be its chief element, is odious? No, the only true economy is to arrange so that your daily labor shall be itself a joy.

Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. Paradoxically, the one sure way not to be happy is deliberately to map out a way of life in which one would please oneself completely and exclusively.

Life may take away happiness. But it can't take away having had it.

You should get married. When I was younger, I was into the fame and fortune, and now I realize that a loving wife and happy children - that's life's greatest consolation prize.

If you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.

If you know that all is well, you know all you need to know. And if you know life is supposed to be fun, you know more than almost anybody else knows.

There is nothing for you to go back and live over, or fix, or feel regret about now. Every part of your life has unfolded just right.

Maybe in the general scheme of things he couldn't find any meaning in life, but on a smaller scale it was okay. Not always, but a lot of the time.

I really keep my life very simple.

Who can worry about a career? Have a life.

Your life is pure joy, pure ecstasy, when you live in humility.

Accept life on life's terms and just let things go.

The true heart of all human beings is the lover of what is.

Very few things in life matter.

There is a case, and a strong case, for that particular form of indolence that allows us to move through life knowing only what immediately concerns us.

Five cats and a woman. That is all I need in life.

She was learning, quite late, what many people around her appeared to have known since childhood that life can be perfectly satisfying without major achievements.

I see what happens when one gets very attached to material things. That's just not what my life is.

Keep low expectations and life gets pretty good.

Life can be very deep, but I'm trying to stay at the shallow end.

You never miss what you've never had. I never had any other life. I didn't know any other life.

Feel that life likes you just the way you are; otherwise, it would have made you differently.

Life is too short to spend it being angry, bored, or dull.

My 80s were the best years of my life!