Quotes About Contentment

What should I be but just what I am?

Eran días de irresponsable plenitud, de felicidad imperceptible.

A great thirst is a great joy when quenched in time.

Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now.

Nobody seems more obsessed by diet than our anti-materialistic, otherworldly, New Age spiritual types. But if the material world is merely illusion, an honest guru should be as content with Budweiser and bratwurst as with raw carrot juice, tofu and seaweed slime.

I am pleased enough with the surfaces - in fact they alone seem to me to be of much importance. Such things for example as the grasp of a child's hand in your own, the flavor of an apple, the embrace of a friend or lover, the silk of a girl's thigh, the sunlight on the rock and leaves, the feel of music, the bark of a tree, the abrasion of granite and sand, the plunge of clear water into a pool, the face of the wind - what else is there? What else do we need?

My own ambition, my deepest and truest ambition, is to find within myself someday, somehow, the ability to do likewise, to do NOTHING - and find it enough.

Me, I'm living under a sword too, as Jack may have told you. An old wino's disease, which could lay me in the grave most anytime. Not that I mind too much; I've done everything I ever wanted to do. But ... as you know, one would like to continue doing the good things over and over again, so long as there's pleasure in it.

I am twenty miles or more from the nearest fellow human, but instead of loneliness I feel loveliness. Loveliness and a quiet exultation.

That's the happiest moment. When it's all done. When we stop. When we can stop.

I have grown calm and unrepining with years; and, if I am now shrinking from men, I have derived at least this advantage from the loneliness first made habitual by regret; that while I feel increased benevolence to others, I have learned to look for happiness only in myself.

I felt as if I could ride the bus through eternity and be happy.

The best way to realize the pleasure of feeling rich is to live in a smaller house than your means would entitle you to have.

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Begone, dull Care! I prithee begone from me!Begone, dull Care! Thou and I shall never agree.

It doesn't get any better than this.

The thing I'm most thankful for right now is elastic waistbands.

As having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

Retirement can be a great joy if you can figure out how to spend time without spending money.

Give us Lord, a bit o' sun, A bit o' work and a bit o' fun; Give us all in the struggle and sputter Our daily bread and a bit o' butter.

Sugar in the gourd and honey in the horn,I never was so happy since the hour I was born.

In a good old age.

When your life flashes before your eyes, make sure you've got plenty to watch.

It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.