Quotes About Contentment

My secret to staying young... Having no sense of time.

If you imagine that once you have accomplished your ambitions you will have time to turn to the Way, you will discover that your ambitions never come to an end.

If you put your conditioned intellect to rest for a long time, suddenly it will be like the bottom falling out of a bucket - then you will naturally be happy and at peace.

The best thing about graduating from the university was that I finally had time to sit on a log and read a good book.

I'm just having a wonderful time. It's an interesting thing that I'm very comfortable with this material and I don't know why. Maybe it's because I did MacBeth.

Meditation essentially means having a great time.

I'm very happy when I have time to just be.

Wasting your time in anxious worry over what you may not have is a good way to waste what you need to get it.

Don't try to live too many days at a time.

I wish i spent more time at the office.

Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age.

We see but the outside of a rich man's happiness; few consider him to be like the silkworm, that, when she seems to play, is at the very same time consuming herself.

HAPPINESS comes first by what comes into your head a long time before material BLESSINGS come into your hand.

The people who have more money and goods than any people in the history of the world spend most of their time worrying about not having enough.

I'm very happy to sing whatever I'm singing. I've always enjoyed any role I've been given at a certain time. They've all been favourites, they've all been wonderful pieces to play.

The happiest people are those who have harvested their time in others. The unhappiest people are those who wonder how the world is going to make them happy.

A poor woman from Manchester, on being taken to the seaside, is said to have expressed her delight on seeing for the first time something of which there was enough for everybody.

The wise man contents himself with what he has, until such time as he invents something better.

The few men who possess the wealth of the material things of the earth at the present time are not truly happy.

February... Now more than ever one must remind oneself that it is wasteful folly to wish that time would pass, or - as the puritanical old saying used to have it - to kill time until it kills you.

To be excited and at the same time satisfied; to desire and possess -that has been described somewhere as the wise man's idea of heaven.

Surely it is a sin to reject the few gifts we are given. Be happy in the flash of time granted to us or hurt forever.

I never have planned a whole lot of future. It's one day at a time.

You and me have a better time than most can dream of, better than the best.