Quotes About Contentment

And for one who had tended her years with care, autumn need not be a season of scarcity or regret—but one of harvest and celebration

Loneliness is painful, emotionally and even physically, born from a "want of intimacy" when we need it most, in early childhood. Solitude—the capacity to be contentedly and constructively alone—is built from successful human connection at just that time.

People who have few possessions cling tightly to those they have. That is one of the facts that make life so discouraging.

"You can make it all right if you will only be satisfied to remain small," I told myself. I had to keep saying it over and over to myself. "Be little. Don't try to be big. Work under the guns. Be a little worm in the fair apple of life."

I'll do something, get into some kind of work where talk don't count. Maybe I'll just be a mechanic in a shop. I don't know. I guess I don't care much. I just want to work and keep quiet. That's all I've got in mind.

I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them.

You can make it all right if you will only be satisfied to remain small,' I told myself. I had to keep saying it over and over to myself. 'Be little. Don't try to be big. Work under the guns. Be a little worm in the fair apple of life.' I got all of these sayings at my tongue's end, used to go through the streets of Chicago muttering them to myself.

Most of us live our lives like toads, sitting perfectly still, under a plantain leaf. We are waiting for a fly to come our way. When it comes out darts the tongue. We nab it. That is all. We eat it.

People who have few possessions cling tightly to those they have.

So let me end with the wish that you find the same kind of happyiness, and laughter, and love, that I have found, and that you have the wisdon to make them last.

The more one has, the less one desires.

there's no place else I'd rather be.

There's nothing better than doing nothing.

I draw from my family and my friends and I feel like that small-town person. The achievements, the materialistic possessions have really become to mean less. They mean nothing.

To me, the most important thing is happiness.

I don't know, I just want to be happy. I could be in a hole somewhere. Or I could completely lose it and be some hippy living in the woods with my dad.

If I have enough money to eat I'm good.

Does one really have to fret About enlightenment? No matter what road I travel, I'm going home.

Five decades ago, some very kind people in Japan slipped me the secret: you can dramatically extend life—not by multiplying the number of your years, but by expanding the fullness of your moments.

Just like that?" Tony asked idly, once he was comfortable.

No wedding bells for me anymore. I've been happily married to my profession for years.

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it.

I wasn't afraid of getting old, because I was never a great beauty.

You've got to S-M-I-L-E To be H-A-Double-P-Y