Quotes About Contentment

How lucky Ménalque is, I thought, owning nothing! It is because I want to save things that I suffer. What does it all really matter?

Van de duizend vormen van het leven kan ieder er maar één kennen. Het geluk van een ander benijden is dwaasheid; men zou er toch niets mee weten te doen. Het geluk wil geen confectiegoed zijn, maar een pak op maat.

C'était une âme et un corps où n'entrait jamais l'aiguillon.

Niets staat geluk meer in de weg dan de herinnering aan geluk.

Chaque être est plus ou moins capable de joie. Chaque être doit tendre à la joie.

et déjà je ne souhaitais plus rien au-delà de son sourire, et que de marcher avec elle, ainsi, dans un tiède chemin bordé de fleurs, en lui donnant la main.

?i totuÈ™i, de multe ori, fiind cât pe-aici s? culeg o bucurie, i-am întors brusc spatele, aÈ™a cum ar fi putut face un ascet. Nu era vorba deloc de renunÈ›are, ci de o aÈ™teptare, atât de des?vârÈ™it?, a ceea ce putea fi acea bucurie, de o anticipare atât de împlinit?, încât realizarea nu m? mai putea înv??a nimic.

Those who have eyes…do not know their happiness.

Tityrus smiled.

I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.

They did not speak, surprised to see how simple, almost poor, happiness could be, yes, materially poor and yet so abundant.

Their own life together was like a subtle watercolor sketch, invisible to other people. They gave the world what it required of them and for the rest of the time were content to be forgotten.

On 24 April 1970 we bought a house in Myasnoye. The one we wanted. Now I don't care what happens. If they don't give me any work I'll sit in the country and breed piglets and geese, and tend my vegetable patch, and to hell with the lot of them

I believe that higher wages to men who respect their employers and are happy and contented are a good investment, yielding, indeed, big dividends. The

This might come as a shock: if you aren't happy now, maybe you haven't wanted it enough.

The challenge of life is to appreciate everything and attach yourself to nothing.

They want to claim, want to take, and want to get, and yet what they crave eludes their grasp. Why? Because they do not wait for God to give it.

And there they were, empty, ignorant, helpless, glad, and joyful, but deeply humbled.

Blessed is the man who has made that "I have nothing" the motto of his ministry.

It is wonderful how glorious that life of faith becomes for him who is content to have nothing, or feel nothing, in himself, and always to live on the power of his Lord.

And at fifty, Less muses drowsily, you're as likable as you're going to get.

the time when any couple has found its balance, and passion has quieted from its early scream, but gratitude is still abundant; what no one realizes are the golden years.

what do I want from life? And I say: "Less!

Clark always says that you can be thin or you can be happy, and, Arthur, I have already tried thin.