Quotes About Contentment

It's more important for me to feel content than to be famous.

No matter where you are, keep your life simple - that is all I am saying. Remember, a rich man is not the one who has the most, but one who desires the least.

I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money.

To know nothing is nothing, not to want to know anything likewise, but to be beyond knowing anything, to know you are beyond knowing anything, that is when peace enters in, to the soul of the incurious seeker.

Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now.

When I fall I'll weep for happiness.

In me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on.

I'm not unhappy enough. [Pause.] That was always my unhap, unhappy, but not unhappy enough.

God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.

He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.

People are always in good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.

All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.

It is hard enough to know whether one is happy or unhappy now, and still harder to compare the relative happiness or unhappiness of different times of one's life; the utmost that can be said is that we are fairly happy so long as we are not distinctly aware of being miserable.

To me it seems that those who are happy in this world are better and more lovable people than those who are not.

A man at five and thirty should no more regret not having had a happier childhood than he should regret not having been born a prince of the blood.

the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

We next to never know when we are well off: but this cuts two ways,--for if we did, we should perhaps know better when we are ill off also; and I have sometimes thought that there are as many ignorant of the one as of the other.

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it — and they do enjoy it as much as man and other circumstances will allow. He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most; God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us. If

Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived at in a single lifetime.

Some people say that their school days were the happiest of their lives. They may be right, but I always look with suspicion upon those whom I hear saying this. It is hard enough to know whether one is happy or unhappy now, and still harder to compare the relative happiness or unhappiness of different times of one's life; the utmost that can be said is that we are fairly happy so long as we are not distinctly aware of being miserable. As

Let it suffice that George Pontifex did not consider himself fortunate, and he who does not consider himself fortunate is unfortunate.

From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.