Quotes about Contentment

I think about what I've lost instead of thinking about what I have.

Only fools and the dead are content.

Wealth isn't evil, Kate. It's the love of money that is. When no matter how much you have is never enough.

I realize that humans cannot bear very much reality. Most lives are a flight from selfhood. Most prefer the truths of the stable. You stick your heads into the stanchions and munch contentedly until you die. Others use you for their purposes. Not once do you live outside the stable to lift your head and be your own creature. Muad'Dib came to tell you about that. Without understanding his message, you cannot revere him!

Better a dry morsel and quietness therewith than a house full of sacrifice and strife.

Do not be trapped by the need to achieve anything. This way, you achieve everything.

Better a dry morsel and quietness than a house full of sacrifice and strife.

What delicious abandon in the sleep of a child." He spoke mechanically: "If only adults could relax like that.

give me the luxuries of life and I will gladly do without the necessities.

Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia.

Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make 'our own life' less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?

Not reaching back for what was lost in my yesterdays. And not reaching for what I hope will be in my tomorrow. But living fully with what is right in front of me. And truly seeing the gift of this moment.