#contentment

We need much less than we think we need. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#need

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 lives. ↗

— Richard Matheson

#death #sleep #death

Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're real quite lucky. ↗

— Dr. Seuss

#real

If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own back yard. Because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with. ↗

— L. Frank Baum

#desire #home #satisfaction #satisfaction

You say, 'If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.' You make a mistake. If you are not content with what you have, you would not be satisfied if it were doubled. ↗

— Charles H. Spurgeon

#satisfaction #satisfaction

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not. ↗

— Ann Brashares

#satisfaction #satisfaction

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 largest to me, and that is myself. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#self-esteem #self-satisfaction #satisfaction

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have. ↗

— Socrates

#contentment #gluttony #greed #greed

Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#joy

For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#contentment #raining #rain