Quotes About Contentment

My mind to me a kingdom is, Such present joys therein I find, That it excels all other bliss.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest shall be provided or its loss shall not be felt.

The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.

How happy is he born and taught,That serveth not another's will;Whose armor is his honest thought,And simple truth his utmost skill!

Lord of himself, though not of lands;And having nothing, yet hath all.

Who God doth late and early pray,More of his grace than gifts to send,And entertains the harmless dayWith a well-chosen book or friend.

We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.

He travels safe and not unpleasantly who is guarded by poverty and guided by love.

Not to be content with Life is the unsatisfactory state of those which destroy themselves; who being afraid to live, run blindly upon their own Death, which no Man fears by Experience.

Happy are they that go to bed with grave music.

Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

I was happy without having sought happiness.

It is true that I suffered in a difficult and stupid love affair and that I worked at one bad job after another to try to keep myself going. Nevertheless, I remember that time as extraordinary, and I wouldn't trade it for anything. I don't even wish now that I had more money. And had I been asked if I was suffering at the time, I would have said a defiant no.

I was walking home from the library on Broadway, and I remember that the street looked different to me, very clear and beautiful, and I felt incredibly happy. I even said to myself, 'I've never been happier than I am now.

Sometimes, I would put down my book and look at the two of them in the light of my reading lamp. I now think I was lucky that I wasn't young. I knew what I might not have known earlier - that my happiness had come. I even told myself to fix the image of my wife and son in my mind while I watched them sleep, and it is still there, a clear picture left by my conscious wish.

Learn to love yourself and all that other stuff will not matter

Black love is Black wealth and they'll probably talk about my hard childhood and never understand that all the while I was quite happy

Worry is the enemy of love. You cannot be in love and be worried at the same time.

Happiness--like love--is itself an attitude.

In general, I think, human beings are happiest at table when they are very young, very much in love or very alone.

Every life is narrow. Our only escape is not to run away, but to learn to love the people we are and the world in which we find ourselves.

A little work, a little sleep, a little love and it's all over.

You can be pleased with nothing if you are not pleased with yourself.