Quotes about Contentment

Relinquish the desire for children and wealth and live the life of 'Vanaprastha,' that is, one retired from the household cares.

The basis of all disappointment is the disproportion between what we imagine or wish for to make us happy and what we actually possess.

The more rich a soul is on the inside, the less need it has of luxuries on the outside.

Blessed also are the poor in spirit socially.

Woe to you that are filled: for you shall hunger";

Our hearts will be where our joys are.

Peace belongs only to those who will to have it.

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

Striving is exhausting. Sometimes I do say things like, 'I wish I were not quite this driven to be excellent.' It's not a comfortable life. It's not relaxed. I'm not relaxed as a person. I mean, I'm not unhappy. But... it's the opposite of being comfortable.

We have become 99 percent money mad. The method of living at home modestly and within our income, laying a little by systematically for the proverbial rainy day which is due to come, can almost be listed among the lost arts.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

The theological virtue of hope is the patient and trustful willingness to live without closure, without resolution, and still be content and even happy because our Satisfaction is now at another level, and our Source is beyond ourselves.