Quotes About Contentment

There is no easy or quick plan to happiness, there is no single spot where you can start. Where you are right now is the best place to begin.

Like it! Yes—the way I'd like a hot stove if I was to set on it long enough. No, Tom, I won't be rich, and I won't live in them cussed smothery houses. I like the woods, and the river, and hogsheads, and I'll stick to 'em, too.

It would 'a' been a miserable business to have any unfriendliness on the raft; for what you want, above all things, on a raft, is for everybody to be satisfied, and feel right and kind towards the others.

The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.

A full belly is of little worth where the mind is starved, and the heart.

there ain't no better way to put in time when you are lonesome; you can't stay so, you soon get over it.

Being in love is like getting back to childhood. You're just happy for no reasons at all.

I have had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.

Oh, anybody can run a tick down that don't belong to them. I'm satisfied with it. It's a good enough tick for me. Sho, there's

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscious: this is the ideal life.

Yes. And I'm rich now when I think about it. I own myself, and I'm worth eight hundred dollars. I wish I had the money. Then I wouldn't ever want anything else

Nothing helps scenery like ham and eggs. Ham and eggs, and after these a pipe - an old, rank, delicious pipe - ham and eggs and scenery, a down grade, a flying coach, a fragrant pipe and and a contented heart - these make happiness. It is what all the ages have struggled for.

Eseldorf was a paradise for us boys. We were not overmuch pestered with schooling. Mainly we were trained to be good Christians; to revere the Virgin, the Church, and the saints above everything. Beyond these matters we were not required to know much; and, in fact, not allowed to. Knowledge was not good for the common people, and could make them discontented with the lot which God had appointed for them, and God would not endure discontentment with His plans.

Yes; en I's rich now, come to look at it. I owns mysef, en I's wuth eight hund'd dollars. I wisht I had de money, I wouldn' want no mo'.

One wearies of everything in this world, even happiness. Did

we felt very complacent and conceited, and better satisfied with life after we had added it to our list of things which we had seen and some other people had not.

and as we lay and smoked the pipe of peace and compared all this luxury with the years of tiresome city life that had gone before it, we felt that there was only one complete and satisfying happiness in the world, and we had found it.

Old Man: The impulse which moves a person to do things - The only impulse that ever moves a person to do things Young Man: The only one! Is there but one? O.M. That is all Y.M. Well, certainly that is a strange doctrine. What is the sole impulse that ever moves a person to do a thing? O.M. The impulse to CONTENT HIS OWN SPIRIT - the NECESSITY of contenting his own spirit and WINNING ITS APPROVAL.

extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death. To be loyal to rags, to shout for rags, to worship rags, to die for rags—that is a loyalty of unreason, it is pure animal; it belongs to monarchy, was

Yet little Tom was not unhappy. He had a hard time of it but did not know it. It was the sort of time that all the Offal Court boys had; therefore he supposed it was the correct and comfortable thing.

Bilgewater, and so what's the use o' your bein' sour? It'll only make things oncomfortable. It ain't my fault I warn't born a duke, it ain't your fault you warn't born a king—so what's the use to worry? Make the best o' things the way you find 'em, says I—that's my motto.

Good books, good friends, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

El saber no era bueno para las gentes vulgares y quizá podía descontentarles con la suerte de Dios les había señalado en este mundo, y Dios no tolera que nadie esté descontento de sus planes. Teníamos

Yes; en I's rich now, come to look at it. I owns mysef, en I's wuth eight hund'd dollars. I wisht I had de money, I wouldn' want no mo'." CHAPTER 9 I WANTED to go and look at a place right about the middle of the island that I'd found when