A book of verses underneath the boughA flask of wine, a loaf of bread and thouBeside me singing in the wildernessAnd wilderness is paradise now.

There are still blue skies and rainbows and days bathed in sunlight. There are colorful shade trees filled with sweet bird songs. And there are wishing stars in the heavens as well as angels in...

I exist as I am, that is enough,If no other in the world be aware I sit content,And if each and all be aware I sit content.One world is aware, and by the far the...

Hope combined with action is the only thing that will bring you contentment.

Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty

A thankful and a contented spirit is a continual feast. We ought to be contented, and we shall be contented, if we are in the habit of seeing God in everything, and living upon Him...

Watching too much TV can triple our hunger for more possessions, while reducing our personal contentment by about 5 percent for every hour a day we watch.

Ari smiled. The sun was shining, the weather was great, he was eating ice cream, and all his dreams were about to come true.

Happiness is achieving your goals. Contentment is not having any.

In a clock, stop but one wheel and you stop every wheel, because they are dependent upon one other. So when God has ordered a thing for the present to be thus and thus, how...

Keep your head up, your faith strong, and your eyes open for the little miracles all around you…because they are there, just waiting to be discovered.

That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale about a man who found a magic cup and learned that if he wept into...

I have found contentment and joy in being exactly where God wants me to be, and that is what makes me happy.

All the arguing in the world won’t change the mind of the Umpire.

The true antidote to greed is contentment. If you have a strong sense of contentment, it doesn’t matter whether you obtain the object of your desire or not. Either way, you are still content.

Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.

When I’m depressed, I read Caeiro — he’s my fresh air. I become very calm, content, faithful — yes, I find faith in God, and in the soul’s transcendent living smallness, after reading the poems...

why”—so as to leave nothing more. To speak, or think, of these many questions is to sound like I’m whining. But I am whining, about why….

Happiness is never found in materialistic things; it exists in things that cannot be physically possessed. Therefore, happiness is priceless. It can never be purchased. Love is happiness.

I think it’s a real gift to be able to say that what’s in your life is enough. It seems most of us re always wanting more.

That was bliss. Being cared for. Wanted. Feeling so necessary to someone’s existence that there was no place for the loneliness inside her.

If one bite fills you, you don’t need two.

Always remember that you were once alone, and the crowd you see in your life today are just as unecessary as when you were alone.

What I see especially among the Navajos and the Zunis and the Hopis is a culture of people who have been smart enough to learn a lesson that we’re awfully slow to get… They know...

I’m into anything, so long as you’re with me.

If men only felt about death as they do about sleep, all terrors would cease. . . Men sleep contentedly, assured that they will wake the following morning. They should feel the same about their...

While many of us admire nice things, materialism and suffering may share a connection. When we place a great deal of our happiness in material things, we run the great risk of losing our happiness...

Success is not a journey, it’s a destination called satisfaction.

It will be your duty, and it will be your pleasure too to estimate her (as you chose her) by the qualities that she has, and not by the qualities she may not have.

I only seem negative to the fortunate. That’s because I show the less fortunate that they aren’t less fortunate after all.

In our need to be somebody, we often forget that we are somebody.

I was especially perceptive to all things beautiful that morning—raspberries in blue china bowls were enough to make the heart sing.

In a person’s lifetime there may be not more than half a dozen occasions that he can look back to in the certain knowledge that right then, at that moment, there was room for nothing...

Wanting less is probably a better blessing than having more.

The secret of contentment is never to allow yourself to want anything which reason tells you you haven’t a chance of getting.

Live near to God, and so all things will appear to you little In comparison to eternal realities.–

Follow the dreams that your heart visualizes, as what you actually see is just an illusion of temporary contentment.

Timing clicking together, finally, pieces falling into place.

A character began to speculate whether the incessant drive to have things over again might be the root of all evil.

Peace means no one is worried about anyone else’s cookie…in this moment we are all quietly content with the cookies we have.

…are you happy?””I am content.””What is the difference?””Between happiness and contentment? Ah, there you have me. It is not easy to put into words. Contentment is a state of mind and body when the two...

Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world…

Some men fish all their lives without knowing it is not really the fish they are after.

Do not think, Oh, that I were delivered from all these afflictions and troubles here in this world! If you were, then you would have more ease yourself, but this is a way of honoring...

Happy is still Happy, with or without the Ever After.

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend.

Some of the freckles I once loved are now closer to liver spots. But it’s still the eyes we look at, isn’t it? That’s where we found the other person, and find them still.

Be not wishing and pining but thankfully content. For it is a short bridge between wanting and regret.”- from “Dimpellumpzki

Search for contentment in each person you meet.

Give a bull grass, sweet water and a willing heifer and he is happy. But a man is never content. If no gadflies of worry exist he will invent them.