Quotes About Contentment

I'm still a little bent, a little crooked, but all things considered, I can't complain.

The less you know, the better you sleep.

Every human being has the right to be rich in mind, body and spirit. They need to live a life that is comforting, productive and continuous. They do not need to compete to reach this level of success but to take it in their strides and to relish the opportunity to pluck from The Universe its opulence.

I get a warm feeling among my books.

There is a strong disposition in youth, from which some individuals never escape, to suppose that everyone else is having a more enjoyable time than we are ourselves;

In solitude What happiness? Who can enjoy alone, Or all enjoying what contentment find?' Milton

As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.

What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil?

That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing.

To have her meals, and her daily walk, and her fill of novels, and to be left alone, was all that she asked of the gods.

We must have richness of soul.

Wealth and poverty do not lie in a person's estate, but in their souls.

I have enough to eat till my hunger is stayed, to drink till my thirst is sated; to clothe myself withal; and out of doors not Callias there, with all his riches, is more safe than I from shivering; and when I find myself indoors, what warmer shirting do I need than my bare walls? what ampler greatcoat than the tiles above my head?

If someone loves a flower of which just one example exists among all the millions and millions of stars, that's enough to make him happy when he looks at the stars.

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

The person who wants nothing, hopes for nothing, and fears nothing can never be an artist.

The more simply we look at ticklish questions, the more placid will be our lives and relationships.

La felicidad no es una estación a la que se llega, sino una manera de viajar. MARGARET LEE RUNBECK

It's not by pursuing but by abandoning our desires that real satisfaction can be found.

Seneca says: 'if we are situated in the midst of a noisy city, let there be a preceptor at our side to contradict those who laud vast incomes and to praise instead the man who is wealthy on little and who measures wealth by how it is used.

Nothing was perfect, but everything was all right. The light was never just blue.

Even to know that delight, in a perfect world, would be the proper response to life is a simplicity beyond most of us.