535 Quotes About Content

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content, but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

Oh, how good it is to be with someone, sometimes.

If she come, I be happy. If she don't, I be content. And then I figure this the lesson I was suppose tolearn.

The palace started as a single vaulted room and grew in proportion to my despair. It began as an exercise to keep my mind from its melancholy, then it became a dream and a necessity. . . . I built a temple in my head. . . . Its hallways were as lofty as a cathedral, and the arch of each window as supple as a bow. Its corridors were the passages of my own brain.

Happiness is exercising the little freedom that we have by choosing things that create harmony in our lives.

True peace cannot be found in a ‘place’. Rather, it is found in a Person who can be with you in any ‘place’.

Ignorance might be bliss. But self-forgetfulness is pure ecstasy.

Silence creates space for content to appear.

We’re desperate for peace because it comes to us so rarely, and when it does, it seems to evaporate at the very moment that it draws near us. But that is peace based on circumstances that are as fleeting as the peace that comes with them, where the peace that comes with God makes everything else flee that draws near it.