contentment Quotes

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.

The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.

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.

The pay is good and I can walk to work.

When we constantly ask for miracles, we're unraveling the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would not be a world, it would be a cartoon.

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.