Quotes on Contentment,

Peace, and Harmony

"Contentment, peace,

harmony, glory, love, beauty, is from WITHIN.”

EdgarCayce

• "If you are content, you have enough to live comfortably.“

- Plautus

• Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

• Lao Tzu

• "Contentment consists not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire."- Thomas Fuller

Like birds landing on a tree top together, and then dispersing, we are together for a very short time, so it makes sense to live in harmony, in unconditional friendship.

Bokar Rinpoche

Success should be measured by the yardstick of happiness; by your ability to remain in peaceful harmony with cosmic laws.

Paramahansa Yogananda (1893 - 1952)

Source: The Law of Success

Life is a place where it is necessary to move gently. Whether it be in thought, speech, or action, the rhythm must be controlled; the law of harmony must be observed in all that one does. Hazrat Inayat Khan

The Tao is unpredictable to those that live according to plans. Only those who have no agenda are in harmony with the Tao.

Lao Tzu (c.604 - 531 B.C.) Source: The Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu

• When deeds and words are in accord, the whole world is transformed.

• Chuang Tzu (c.360 BC - c. 275 BC) • Source: The Book of Chuang Tzu (

Arkana S.),

• "Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase.“

John Balguy

• "If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.“

• John Bunyan

• "True humility is contentment.“

• Henri Frederic Amiel

• "A contented heart is an even sea in the midst of all storms."

Unknown

"When you can think of yesterday without regret and tomorrow without fear, you are near contentment."

• "There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment."- Swami Sivananda

• "Contentment is not the fulfillment of what you want, but the realization of how much you already have."

• "Try to be like the turtle -- at ease in your own shell."- Bill Copeland

• "The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desire for things beyond your reach.“

- Lin Yutang

• Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty

• Socrates