Quotes About Contentment

that perfect Tranquillity of Life, which is no where to be found, but in retreat, a faithful Friend and a good Library

One hour of right-down love is worth an age of living dully on.

That perfect tranquility of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.

Happiness is a state of mind and not a state of possession. Be as you are and you will be happy, if you try to be someone else you will be miserable.

She'll be apples

I wish you a tolerable Thursday. That's all any of us can hope for.

Those Hut Point days, would prove some of the happiest of my life. Just enough to eat and keep warm, no more - no frills or trimmings: there is many a worse and more elaborate life...the luxuries of civilisation satisfy only those wants which they themselves create.

When a heart finds another, what's a cloud more or less in the sky?

When the belly is full, it says to the head, "Sing, fellow!"

When I was younger I was fat. I was never conscious of it and was content with who I was because I was so loved. My mother never told me to lose weight and my father doted on me, but my agent told me. I tried, but I loved Indian food too much.

These golden matters Of Gyges and his treasuries Are no concern of mine. Jealousy has no power over me, Nor do I envy a god his work, And I do not burn to rule. Such things have no Fascination for my eyes.

I'll take the sound of a full throttle purr over the thump of a wagging tail any day.

And then in response to a reply audible to no one but him, Gwilherm de Vannes, bravest of men, gave one last contented sigh and closed his eyes.

Mir je novac, Aarone, a novac je mir.

To live the lives we truly want and deserve, and not just the lives we settle for, we need a Third Metric, a third measure of success that goes beyond the two metrics of money and power, and consists of four pillars: well-being, wisdom, wonder, and giving.

enough. Nothing else really counts at all." Nature

Qué es el éxito? Es ser capaz de irse a la cama cada noche con el alma en paz.

Like dropping through a hole in everything that the world said was important….Like discovering that nothing else mattered and all I needed was now….Temporarily removed from the game….Like floating weightless on the Dead Sea and looking up at an empty sky.

live fuller, more complete lives, aligned with what matters: A life that isn't defined by our salaries and résumés.

Para los estoicos, la forma más segura de encontrar la felicidad sería, por tanto, buscarla en lo único sobre lo que tenemos control: nuestro mundo interior. Todo lo que existe fuera de nosotros puede desaparecer, así que ¿cómo podemos confiarle nuestra felicidad futura y nuestro bienestar?

Just as money can't buy happiness, neither can it buy time affluence.

It's not 'What do I want to do?', it's 'What kind of life do I want to have?' 

Ten thousand flowers in spring, the moon in autumn, a cool breeze in summer, snow in winter. If your mind isn't clouded by unnecessary things, this is the best season of your life. —WU MEN

What is success? It is being able to go to bed each night with your soul at peace. —PAULO COELHO