Contentment Quotes

"I work everyday, but every day is a holiday for me because I enjoy my work."

- Sudha Murty

"It is not that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better."

- Sir Francis Drake

"The days pass happily with me wherever my ship sails."

- Joshua Slocum

"The moon was low but not full. The men set out along the dock in conversation. As they dropped onto the dark beach, Simmons declared, ‘There can be no better place in the world than this.’ Henderson had to agree. The beach was beautiful. The stars lit the sand and balmy air rode in as the waves washed up on paradise"

- Sara Sheridan

"Swimming is normal for me. I'm relaxed. I'm comfortable, and I know my surroundings. It's my home."

- Michael Phelps

"Don't waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content."

- Helen Keller

"It seems to me that to be peaceful and content, you don’t have to know precisely what you want. It may even be better if you don’t. But I think you do need to be very clear what you DON’T want, and steadfast in the not-doing of those things."

- Sandra Boynton

"I think happiness is overrated. Satisfied, at peace-those would be more realistic goals."

- Brad Pitt

"If all I do in my life is soothe someone’s spirit with a song , then let me do that and I’m happy."

- Gladys Knight

"It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor."

- Seneca

"Wealth, after all, is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more."

- Charles Caleb Colton

"Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one."

- Benjamin Franklin

"I love the sunrise, as I am definitely a morning person! It’s a great time to get up and have a coffee in the garden by myself before everybody wakes up."

- Bianca Balti

"I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion."

- Henry David Thoreau

"...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?"

- Vincent Willem van Gogh

"I've often said there's nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse."

- Ronald Reagan

"I’ve got nothing to do today but smile."

- Paul Simon

"Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice."

- Alice Koller

"I'm very happy alone."

- Octavia E. Butler

"There's a tremendous difference between alone and lonely. You could be lonely in a group of people. I like being alone. I like eating by myself. I go home at night and just watch a movie or hang out with my dog. I have to exert myself and really say, oh God, I've got to see my friends 'cause I'm too content being by myself."

- Drew Barrymore

"Vacation mode on."

"Contentment is Allah’s greatest gate, the paradise of this world, and the garden of the enlightened."

"A servant does not reach the level of contentment until he is convinced that Allah's gifts come in things that are withheld from him as well as in things granted to him."

"A cowboy knows how to enjoy a sunset after a long day."

"A good horse and a clear sky are all a cowboy needs."

"SOMETIMES, ITS OK TO FALL APART; TACOS FALL APART AND WE STILL LOVE THEM."

"Autumn is the season to find contentment at home by paying attention to what we already have."

- Unknown

"Autumn is a time to slow down and savor life's simple pleasures."

- Unknown

"Nothing is missing from your life."