344 quotes found
“Within what is allotted to us, we can have spiritual contentment.”
“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”
“He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.”
“Paradise was always over there, a days sail away. But its a funny thing, escapism. You can go far and wide and you can keep moving on and on through places and years, but you never escape your own ...”
“We're all golden sunflowers inside.”
“Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment!”
“All those who love Nature she loves in return, and will richly reward, not perhaps with the good things, as they are commonly called, but with the best things of this world-not with money and title...”
“Lord, make me nowAs happy as the field.With flowers enriched...”
“Things can be added, but that doesn't mean that anything is missing.”
“Happiness isn't a thing. You can't go out and get it like a cup of tea. It's the way you feel about things.”
“Happiness can only be achieved by looking inward & learning to enjoy whatever life has and this requires transforming greed into gratitude.”
“Happy are those who evolve from within.”
“(about William Blake)As for Blake's happiness--a man who knew him said: "If asked whether I ever knew among the intellectual, a happy man, Blake would be the only one who would immediately occur to...”
“Imagination doesn't always make you long for what you cannot have, but rather thrive in what you do not have.”
“The midsummer sun shines but dim, The fields strive in vain to look gay; But when I am happy in Him December's as pleasant as May.”
“There had to be something wrong with my life. I should have been born a Yugoslavian shepherd who looked up at the Big Dipper every night.”
“I'm not "happy" but I'm not unhappy about it.”
“Satiety depends not at all on how much we eat, but on how we eat. It's the same with happiness, the very same...happiness doesn't depend on how many external blessings we have snatched from life. I...”
“Happiness is wanting what you have.”
“Thankfulness creates gratitude which generates contentment that causes peace.”
