Quotes about Contentment

Don't cling to anything and don't reject anything.

What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.

He's satisfied with himself. If you have a soul you can't be satisfied.

So long as one is happy one can endure any discipline: it was unhappiness that broke down the habits of work.

This was hell then; it wasn't anything to worry about: it was just his own familiar room.

Henry was living in a terrible insecurity. To that extent his plight was worse than mine. I had the security of possessing nothing.

and sitting there, my fingers on the quiet instrument, with something to look forward to. I thought to myself: I remember. This is what hope feels like.

I have always liked fat men. They have given up all unnecessary effort, for they have had the sense to realize that women do not, as men do, fall in love with physical beauty. Curran was stout and so was your father. It's easier to feel at home with a fat man.

Fear is easily experienced, but fun is hard to come by in old age, so I already felt a sense of gratitude to General Omar Torrijos.

He who stands in need of nothing cannot be bound by anything.

A pretentious, showy life is an empty life; a plain and simple life is a full life.

We're not completely happy here because we're not supposed to be! Earth is not our final home; we were created for something much better.