contentment Quotes

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.

All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too worn out.

I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.