Quotes About Contentment

If you want to live where people are not afraid of mice, you must give up living in palaces. (p. 106)

One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.

Alas, here is the bigger problem: maybe the reason we North Americans struggle to find makarios in our personal lives is because we don't have a word in our native language to denote it.

I'd rather be ignored as a frog than eaten as a human.

There are some persons whom we can never make happy. It is not in them to be so.

Freedom and peace is even sweeter than wealth and honors.

There was a girl. Her name was Angie. She was happy.

The three saddest things are the ill wanting to be well, the poor wanting to be rich, and the constant traveler saying 'anywhere but here'.

Think of it like this. If you are sad because you can't have something you want - maybe a book or a toy - you can do one of two things: you can do your best to get it, or you can stop wanting it. Either way, if you succeed, you won't be sad any more.

if we want to avoid suffering, we must start with ourselves, because all suffering comes from our own desires.

Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.

There's something nice and safe about having money.

He who has never envied the vegetable has missed the human drama.

Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?

It was unbearable, and he thought again, 'How unhappy I am!' and became happier.

Happy Charlotte, who, though greatly troubled over things that did not matter, seemed oblivious to things that did...

Miss Abbott, don't worry over me. Some people are born not to do things. I'm one of them.

A happy ending was imperative

Fa niente, sono vecchia

We merely want a small house with large rooms, and plenty of them.

I don't want your patronage. I don't want your tea. I was quite happy. What do you want to unsettle me for?

Nothing ever happens to me, " she reflected..... An older person at such an hour and in such a place might think that sufficient was happening to him, and rest content. Lucy desired more.

Though none of his difficulties had been solved, none were added, which is something. The hush continued. He was less troubled by carnal thoughts. He stood still in the darkness instead of groping about in it, as if this was the end for which body and soul had been so painfully prepared.

It was a land of facilities, where nothing had to be striven for, and success was indistinguishable from failure.