Quotes About Contentment

Let me explain something: I'm not incredibly rich.

I don't feel it incumbent on me to make sense of everything.

Most of the time, I'm not scared. I get on with life, not because I'm a fatalist, but because that's the most congenial way of dealing with things. Indeed, most of the time, I'm not conscious of dealing with anything.

It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.

To me, I don't have any problems. I don't have economic problems. I have an independent life.

Letzten Endes ist das schönste Alter dasjenige, in dem man weiss, an welchen Träumen man am stärksten hängt, und in dem noch einige davon verwirklichen kann.

Pleasure is in itself a good; nay, even setting aside immunity from pain, the only good.

Great big houses with great big rooms Were not fashioned for brides and grooms A little place is where we should be Great big troubles and great big cares Come from houses with marble stairs A little place for you and for me

When I'm worried and I can't sleep I count my blessings instead of sheep.

To have, to hold, to love and caress Is all we can ask from above For the road that leads to happiness Is the road that leads to love

Living on a larger scale would soon entail a lot of care and strife We could be so happy with the little things in life A little rain, a little sun, a little work, a little fun A little time for loving when the day is done

We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.

I never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired our condition to excess or had a desire to prolong it.

What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness.

A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

Le plus grand secret pour le bonheur, c'est d'être bien avec soi.

Success is often only a revenge on happiness

To love is to stop comparing.

He remembered how satisfied he had been as a youngster, and that with the little he had had - a dog, a stick, an aloneness he loved (which did not bleed him like his later loneliness), and he wished he could have lived longer in his boyhood. This was an old thought with him.

Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

I spend my time reading, sleeping, eating. The good, quiet life, with nothing to do. And little by little the water tank fills up.

Joie : Le devoir de tout homme est de cultiver sa joie intérieure.

she's got what she needs, not the same as what she wants

grateful that as soon as she stepped off the plane to walk into the blast of heat, her arthritic joints stopped playing up haven't so much as muttered a word of protest since grateful that the sale of the house in London allowed them to buy this one by the beach