Quotes About Contentment

I'm not really interested in being king. I prefer to work for a living

Will, ik houd van je. Alyss … Hij was zich bewust van een vreemd gevoel, een gevoel dat hij al een hele tijd niet had gehad. Toen wist hij ineens wat het betekende en hij glimlachte. Hij was gelukkig.

We all want things we can't have. Being a decent human being is accepting that.

before you, life was desolate - the past hardly worth remembering - and now, each moment a keepsake I can't throw away ...

ambition or contentment? This simple question led me back to a more balanced view of life and put me in touch with the Me I used to know...

My happiness is like this sand: I let it run out of my hand.

For I belong to the sunlight, This I would not barter for any kingdom.

Shut in from all the world without,We sat the clean-winged hearth about.

No longer forward nor behindI look in hope or fearBut, grateful, take the good I findThe best of now and here.

No longer forward or behind I look in hope or fear, But grateful, take the good I find, The best of now and here.

Please give me fifty more years of work and fun, then an instant death when I'm sleeping.

I would be a billionaire if I was lookin' to be a selfish boss. That's not me...All I want is a good sandwich.

She wore peacefulness as if it were a blanket she'd decided to wrap around her shoulders.

Now, she lived with her dogs in a small house by a creek in the country, and her life had become a simple thing.

We have to be thankful considering our number as a family we enjoy very good health generally but you may be sure me and my partner have quite enough to exercise our minds and occupy our attention.

If you want to be free, learn to live simply. Use what you have and be content where you are. Quit trying to solve your problems by moving to another place, by changing mates or careers. Leave your car in the garage. If you have a gun, put it away. Sell that complex computer and go back to using pencil and paper. Rather than read every new book that comes along, reread the classics. Eat food grown locally. Wear simple, durable clothing. Keep a small home

It would be salutary, however, if we could retain our complacency in good conscience.

Let the world wag, and take mine ease in mine inn.

Better is half a loaf than no bread.

The loss of wealth is loss of dirt,As sages in all times assert;The happy man's without a shirt.

Happy man, happy dole.

Beggars should be no choosers.

But no, I decided, he is just a man at peace with himself and with life—an accomplishment rare in its own right.

Mid pleasures and palaces though I may roam, be it ever so humble there's no place like home.