Quotes about Contentment

By God's grace, I'm not hungry for publicity, God has given me enough to fend for myself.

When you've accomplished a certain amount in your career, you're not so focused on your ambitions.

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.