Contentment Quotes

"You can’t always get what you want."

- The Rolling Stones

"There's an ease that I have living in Australia. The best things about Sydney are free: the sunshine's free, and the harbour's free, and the beach is free."

- Russell Crowe

"Arabella dangled her legs out of the bedroom window and closed her eyes. She felt a butterfly brush against her knee, rubbed her skin against the mortar and bricks, drank in the warmth of the morning sunshine on her face, her arms her feet."

- Pauline Fisk

"Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful... that's what matters to me."

- Steve Jobs

"I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck."

- Emma Goldman

"He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature."

- Socrates

"At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough. You don’t need to photograph, paint, or even remember it. It is enough."

- Toni Morrison

"The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain."

- Henry Longfellow

"Remember this: very little is needed to make a happy life."

- Marcus Aurelius

"The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does."

- James M. Barrie

"I enjoy having breakfast in bed. I like waking up to the smell of bacon, sue me. And since I don’t have a butler, I do it myself. So, most nights before I go to bed, I will lay six strips of bacon out on my George Foreman Grill. Then I go to sleep. When I wake up, I plug in the grill, I go back to sleep again. Then I wake up to the smell of crackling bacon."

- Michael Scott

"When you do something beautiful, and nobody noticed, do not be sad, for the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle, yet most of the audience still sleeps."

- John Lennon

"Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me."

- Hebrews 13:5-6

"Even during my injury, I had fun because I got to be a regular college kid."

- Kyrie Irving

"Free time is a terrible thing to waste. Read a book."

- E.A. Bucchianeri

"Free time was the most precious time when you should be doing what you loved, or at least slowing down enough to remember what made your life worthwhile and happy."

- Amy Tan

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

- Henry David Thoreau

"Happiness is a crackling fire, a cozy book, a cup of hot cocoa, and an autumnal nook."

- Angie Weiland-Crosby

"If we're not comparing the present moment to thoughts of the past or thoughts of the future, the present moment is actually perfect just as it is."

- Matt Tenney

"Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you."

- Lao Tzu

"We’re so busy watching out for what’s just ahead of us that we don’t take time to enjoy where we are."

- Bill Watterson

"We already have everything we are looking for, everything we want to become. Be yourself. Life is precious as it is. All the elements for your happiness are already here."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"Bowling is the ideal sport—inside, no weather, and a bar right there"

"It's not about the score; it's about the experience."

"A bad day camping is still better than a good day working."

"Contentment is natural wealth; luxury is artificial poverty."

- Unknown

"Contentment is natural wealth."

- Unknown

"Happiness is not having what you want. It's wanting what you have."

"To live a worrisome life is a waste of your time! Good Morning"

"I am such an Autumn person. Give me a quiet, cozy spot with a simple view of gorgeous trees with colorful leaves on a crisp fall day, fuzzy socks, a warm drink, a good book and I will be in all my glory."