Barnabe Barnes Quotes

I don't look for bliss, just contentment.

The thing we're all looking for is happiness, and if we achieve just a modicum of that or even a little piece of serenity even for five minutes a day, we're very lucky.

The best way to explain it is that I'm not yearning anymore, on or off the course. I appreciate what I have. I feel like I'm blessed.

I think I'm as content as one can be.

I'm at peace.

Life is settled and I'm enjoying it.

I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.

Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.

I like having peace and quiet in my life, and I am perfectly happy in my relationships.

Let Joy or Ease, let Affluence or Content, And the gay Conscience of a life well spent, Calm ev'ry thought, inspirit ev'ry grace, Glow in thy heart, and smile upon thy face.

To marvel at nothing is just about the one and only thing, Numicius, that can make a man happy and keep him that way.

For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.

Contentment, as it is a short road and pleasant, has great delight and little trouble.

Peace is its own reward.

Happiness is the cessation of suffering.

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

We all of us deserve happiness or none of us does.

Mellow doesn't always make for a good story, but it makes for a good life.

There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness.

I'm at a point in my life where I have something solid now. I'm a peaceful person, and I want to be surrounded by peace no matter what I'm doing.

Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.

This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.

Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give - pleasure, possessions, power - but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy.