Quotes about Contentment

Every little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

I have no resentments, no complaints, no ax to grind. I simply feel what I feel and do what I do.

Fullness to such a burden is That go on pilgrimage; Here little, and hereafter bliss, Is best from age to age.

When I turned 40, I was like, huh. I accept myself more now. It was much more comforting.

If we seek paradise outside ourselves, we cannot have paradise in our hearts.

It's far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone — so far.

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, even about the you children being gone, but you mustn't wish for another life. You mustn't want to be somebody else. What you must do is this: 'Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In every thing give thanks.

I knew a man who, in the age of chain-saws, went right on cutting his wood with a handsaw and an axe. He was a healthier and a saner man than I am. I shall let his memory trouble my thoughts.

I know for a while again the health of self-forgetfulness. Sabbaths 2000 V

Wendell Berry's formula for a good life and a good community is simple and pleasingly unoriginal. Slow down. Pay attention. Do good work. Love your neighbours. Love your place. Stay in your place. Settle for less, enjoy it more.