Quotes About Contentment

La avaricia, sin duda, es uno de los signos mas auténticos de la infelicidad profunda

And thus it happens that the reader, the closer he comes to the novel's end, the more he wishes he were back in the summer with which it begins, and finally, instead of following the hero onto the cliffs of suicide, joyfully turns back to that summer, content to stay there forever.

A man doesn't need to fly to the sun, he needs only find a patch of clean earth, and crawl there, and let the sun shine on him.

Când mai eram înc? mulÅ£umit,voiam s? fiu nemulÅ£umit,ÅŸi m? împingeam ,cu toate mijloacele pe care mi le oferea vremea ÅŸi condiÅ£ia mea înspre nemulÅ£umire;acum aÅŸ vrea mult s? m? port întoarce.AÅŸadar,am fost întodeauna nemulÅ£umit,chiar ÅŸi în nemulÅ£umirea mea.

The only proper approach is to learn to accept existing conditions.

Man mußte nur über irgendeine Sache glücklich sein, von ihr erfüllt sein, nach Hause kommen und es aussprechen und die Antwort war ein ironisches Seufzen, ein Kopfschütteln, ein Fingerklopfen auf den Tisch: »Hab auch schon etwas Schöneres gesehn« oder »Mir gesagt Deine Sorgen« oder »ich hab keinen so geruhten Kopf« oder »Kauf Dir was dafür!« oder »Auch ein Ereignis!«

My grandfather used to say, Life is amazingly short. Now, looking back, it all appears so crowded together that I can hardly see how a young man could, for example, make up his mind to ride to the next village without fearing that, even without any special misfortunes, a normal, contentedly spent life might entirely run its course long before such a journey was complete.

because she loved comfort and therefore solitude above all else and was probably happiest when she could stretch out on the couch at home in complete freedom with the cat beside her

But when I walk alone in the woods or lie in the meadows, all is well

The simile of the bird in the hand and the two in the bush has only a very remote application here. In my hand I have nothing, in the bush is everything, and yet—so it is decided by the conditions of battle and the exigency of life—I must choose the nothing.

It's just that I belong in the quietest quiet, that's what's right for me

we don't have to fly straight into the sun, but we do need to creep into some tidy little place on earth where the sun sometime shines and where we can find a little warmth for ourselves.

That is how things stand today, little likely to cause me any uneasiness.

he surrendered to a pleasant feeling of weariness

It gets easier as you get older, settling down. That wild streak is gone.

A world without a proper day of rest is like a landscape without hedgerows, trees, or landmarks: a howling, featureless wilderness in which we incessantly seek pleasure because we cannot find happiness.

I have such a good life. It's something I couldn't have imagined in my wildest dreams.

I think good things are happening to me and will continue. I am not optimistic about the rest of the species, but I'm so blessed, it's almost scary. I'm sorry to disappoint you, but I have a wildly sunny disposition. I love to laugh.

We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we'll also have a lot more joy in living.

People should pursue what they're passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will.

At the end of the day, everything you chase will run.

Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia.

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.