Contentedness Quotes

“The Hemulen, moaning piteously, thrust his nose into the sand. "This has gone too far!" he said. "Why can't a poor innocent botanist live his life in peace and quiet?"
"Life is not peaceful," said Snufkin, contentedly.”
― Tove Jansson, Finn Family Moomintroll

“Riches, prestige, everything can be lost. But the happiness in your own heart can only be dimmed; it will always be there, as long as you live, to make you happy again.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“Moomintroll's mother and father always welcomed all their friends in the same quiet way, just adding another bed and putting another leaf in the dining-room table. And so Moominhouse was rather full -- a place where everyone did what they liked and seldom worried about tomorrow. Very often unexpected and disturbing things used to happen, but nobody ever had time to be bored, and that is always a good thing.”
― Tove Jansson, Finn Family Moomintroll

“Oh, dear me!" he lamented. "The raft has floated off and I suppose it's gone down that awful hole by now."
"Well, never mind. We're not on it," said Snufkin gaily. "What's a kettle here or there when you're out looking for a comet!”
― Tove Jansson, Comet in Moominland

“Let your confidence reflect your contentedness.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“But I'm okay with being here in the Now and letting later work itself out.”
― Susane Colasanti, Waiting for You

“Contentedness is a party I leave early ever time. It's not often that I feel invited to begin with, and even rarer that I feel welcomed enough to stay. I've learned to never test any group's hospitality. Patience like that is finite for someone like me, and it's dangerous to indulge in it.”
― Ryan La Sala, The Honeys

“After sowing seeds in the soil and completing our various tasks, we need to be able to walk away without seeking to be noticed. We should not hold on to any expectations about witnessing the harvest.”
― M. Fethullah Gülen, Mefkure Yolculuğu

“If all who love one another were of the same opinion, living would be monotonous, and conversation flabby. So cheer up. You are content. All me to be.”
― Mildred Aldrich, A Hilltop on the Marne: Being Letters Written June 3-September 8, 1914

“But Moominmamma was quite unperturbed.
"Well, well!" she said, "it seems to me that our guests are having a very good time."
"I hope so," replied Moominpappa. "Pass me a banana, please dear.”
― Tove Jansson, Finn Family Moomintroll

“What have I to prove, and to whom, and why? I'm keen enough to want nothing more than to live a simple, humble, unfettered life.”
― Donna Lynn Hope

“What keeps you from the inner peace and contentment you crave now? Must life's battles be fought and won before you can be satisfied?”
― Steve Goodier

“We took risks, we knew we took them; things have come out against us, and therefore we have no cause for complaint, but bow to the will of Providence, determined still to do our best to the last.”
― Robert Falcon Scott

“Try closing your doors to worldliness and you will see a thousand others opened by God Almighty, the Opener of Doors. That is, He is the only one who opens doors. thus, if you wish His door of providence, good pleasure, and appreciation to open to you, then you must keep your doors closed to all worldly expectations for a lifetime.”
― M. Fethullah Gülen, Mefkure Yolculuğu

“How happy he must be, this Hobgoblin," exclaimed Sniff.
"He isn't a bit," replied Snufkin, "and he won't be until he finds the King's Ruby. It's almost as big as the black panther's head, and to look into it is like looking at leaping flames. The Hobgoblin has looked for the King's Ruby on all the planets including Neptune -- but he hasn't found it. Just now he has gone off to the moon to search in the craters, but he hasn't much hope of success, because in his heart of hearts the Hobgoblin believes that the King's Ruby lies in the sun, where he can never go because it is too hot.”
― Tove Jansson, Finn Family Moomintroll

“It could be said of him that while others chased happiness, he was happy with being content.”
― Neel Mukherjee, The Lives of Others

“I just have this feeling,’ he said, ‘that life really isn’t so complicated. We only make it that way through fear and worry. When your soul is quiet and steady, like ours is right now, Vixie, you’ll find there, truly, is so much to smile about.”
― Ella Rose Carlos, A Long Lost Fantasy

“Every time you fail, you discover a new way of how you WON’T feel content. The more you fail, the closer you get to finding the right way to becoming content in life. You just have to keep trying until you find it.”
― Anas Hamshari, Businessman With An Affliction

“Show business and politics, being run by practical, cigar-smoking businessmen, manufacture personalities on an assembly line. Baseball, fighting for its life, has been stifling them as fast as they appear.
What makes it so sad is that the athlete has a role in our society that reaches even beyond showmanship. The athlete is one of the last symbols of that superfluity of our society, the physical man. The average man finds that although the instincts of his primitive forebears may beat a tomtom in his blood, his own daily conflict has been reduced to the drive downtown, the paper work in the office, the return trip. The conflict is undefined, the enemy is indistinct, the battle remains permanently unsettled. He doesn't really know whether he has won or lost; there is only the vague feeling that he is somehow losing.”
― Bill Veeck, The Hustler's Handbook