Quotes About Contentment

My country's where my comfort's best secured.

One's country is wherever one does well. Où l'on est bien, là est la patrie.

Le bonheur est à ceux qui se suffisent à eux-mêmes.

It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient.

Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.

Happiness does not lie in amusement; it would be strange if one were to take trouble and suffer hardship all one's life in order to amuse oneself

Happiness then, is found to be something perfect and self sufficient, being the end to which our actions are directed.

Nature does nothing in vain. Therefore, it is imperative for persons to act in accordance with their nature and develop their latent talents, in order to be content and complete.

Justice is the loveliest and health is the best, but the sweetest to obtain is the heart's desire.

A man without regrets cannot be cured.

Happiness seems to depend on leisure, because we work to have leisure, and wage war to live in peace.

Verbally there is very general agreement; for both the general run of men and people of superior refinement say that it is happiness, and identify living well and doing well with being happy; but with regard to what happiness is they differ, and the many do not give the same account as the wise.

Happiness, therefore, being found to be something final; and self-sufficient, is the end at which all actions aim.

Happiness also requires external goods in addition.

If it is better to be happy as a result of one's own exertions than by the gift of fortune, it is reasonable to suppose that this is how happiness is won.

Het geluk behoort toe aan de tevredenen

So more friends than suffice for one's own life are superfluous, and a hindrance to noble loving; there is therefore no need of them. In the case of friends for pleasure, too, a few are enough, as a little seasoning in food is enough. (page 177)

One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brief space of time, make a man blessed and happy.

Happiness belongs to those who suffice themselves.

And he is by no means apt to make laments about things which cannot be helped, or requests about those which are trivial; because to be thus disposed with respect to these things is consequent only upon real anxiety about them.

Nobody's happy. What's happy? Happiness is over when the lights come on

Over the next eight years, almost without noticing, I arrived at a quiet revelation. You could make a home by yourself. You could fill that home with friends and friendly strangers without someone sleeping next to you. You could tend your garden and cook your meals and find predictable pleasure in your own autonomy.

People are never satisfied. They crave too much then complain too much.