Quotes about Contentment

Enough to live, enough to merely be.

seems to me that everything in the light and air ought to be happy; Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave, let him know he has enough.

I do not trouble my spirit to vindicate itself or be understood

There's joy all around, if you only look for it.

A day without smiling is a wasted day.

Delight thyself also in the LORD: and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. PSALM 37:4

And we pray, not for new earth or heaven, but to be quiet in heart, and in eye clear. What we need is here.

There comes . . . a longing never to travel again except on foot.

My wish simply is to live my life as fully as I can. In both our work and our leisure, I think, we should be so employed. And in our time this means that we must save ourselves from the products that we are asked to buy in order, ultimately, to replace ourselves.

He never complained. He seemed to have no instinct for the making much of oneself that complaining requires.

The chance you had is the life you've got. You can make complaints about what people, including you, make of their lives after they have got them, and about what people make of other people's lives, ...but you mustn't wish for another life. You mustn't want to be somebody else.

We had, you could say, everything but money -- Grandmam and I did, anyhow. We had each other and our work, and not much time to think of what we didn't have.