Quotes About Contentment

And if to some my tale seems foolishness I am content that such could count me fool.

It's little I ask, and get still less, but quite enough for me.

Even in these straits our life is not as pitiful as you'd think, so long as we find joy in every hour.

Of happiness the chiefest part IS a wise heart

What good were eyes to me? Nothing I could see could bring me joy.

Who would choose uneasy dreams to don a crown when all the kingly sway can be enjoyed without?

To never have been born may be the greatest boon of all.

The happiest life consists of ignorance, Before you learn how to grieve or rejoice. --SOPHOCLES (496-406 B.C.)

Now as we keep our watch and wait the final day, count no man happy till he dies, free of pain at last.

I know I please where I must please the most.

Blest, they are the truly blest who all their lives have never tasted devastation.

It's little I ask for, and still less I get, yet it is enough for me.

Mortal man must always look to his ending. And none can be called happy until that day when he carries his happiness down to the grave in peace. - Sophocles

até o dia fatal de cerrarmos os olhos não devemos dizer que um mortal foi feliz de verdade antes de ele cruzar as fronteiras da vida inconstante sem jamais ter provado o sabor de qualquer sofrimento!

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

In the end, therefore, money will be the one thing people will desire, which is moreover only representative, an abstraction. Nowadays a young man hardly envies anyone his gifts, his art, the love of a beautiful girl, or his fame; he only envies him his money. Give me money, he will say, and I am saved...He would die with nothing to reproach himself with, and under the impression that if only he had had the money he might really have lived and might even have achieved something great.

If I had a humble spirit in my service who, when I asked for a glass of water, brought me the world's costliest wines blended in a chalice, I should dismiss him, in order to teach him that my pleasure consists, not in what I enjoy, but in having my own way.

A victor only breeds hatred, while a defeated man lives in misery, but a man at peace within lives happily, abandoning up ideas of victory and defeat.

I'm basically a really happy person. My life is nuts, but it feels complete.

It's important to focus on the good in life and appreciate it.

When you experience having nothing you value everything - and that applies to all aspects of life.

Life is not that complicated.

What money can buy has very little value beyond the necessaries of life.