Quotes About Contentment

A free life is still free for great souls. Verily, whoever possesses little is possessed that much less: praised be a little poverty!

Many honours I want not, nor great treasures: they excite the spleen. But it is bad sleeping without a good name and a little treasure.

Happiness runneth after me. That is because I do not run after women. Happiness, however, is a woman.

Even the most beautiful scenery is no longer assured of our love after we have lived in it for three months, and some distant coast attracts our avarice: possessions are generally diminished by possession.

The word enough does not exist in Love's vocabulary

To use a man for what he is naturally best fitted is to keep him, if one can, from apostasy and dissatisfaction. At the same time, life's temptations come most often from that for which one has the greatest aptitude.

relinquish the desire for children and wealth and live the life of 'Vanaprastha,' that is, one retired from the household cares.

The basis of all disappointment is the disproportion between what we imagine or wish for to make us happy and what we actually possess.

The more rich a soul is on the inside, the less need it has of luxuries on the outside.

Woe to you that are filled: for you shall hunger";

Our hearts will be where our joys are.

Peace belongs only to those who will to have it

There's very little in my world that a foot massage and a thin-crust, everything-on-it pizza won't set right.

His longterm aspirations were not a subject upon which he allowed himself to dwell. Not because they were in any way bad or bizarre, but because he had come to realize he didn't have any. Nothing specific anyway. He'd never pictured himself as anything in particular. Just a situation where he made enough money doing something... anything... enough to have whatever he wanted. A nice new Dodge pickup. A boat or maybe a little house someplace. The kind of things people wanted.

El secreto de una buena vejez no es mas que un pacto honrado con la soledad.

Think of love as a state of grace not as a means to anything... but an end in itself.

Nincs az az orvosság, ami meggyógyítaná azt, amit a boldogság nem tud meggyógyítani.

Both looked back then on the wild revelry, the gaudy wealth, and the unbridled fornication as an annoyance and they lamented that it had cost them so much of their lives to find the paradise of shared solitude. Madly in love after so many years of sterile complicity, they enjoyed the miracle of loving each other as much at the table as in bed, and they grew to be so happy that even when they were two worn-out old people they kept on blooming like little children and playing together like dogs.

No, not rich, he said. I am a poor man with money, not the same thing.

The more the heart is nourished with happiness, the more it is insatiable.

There was a great deal of energy and contentment to be gotten simply from not living a lie.

I do not like to influence others. I would not like to become famous. I have done nothing deserving of acknowledgment in my life.

Wanting more majors, wanting more wins, almost feels like I think I'm being too greedy.

Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, no winter in thy year.