E. L. Konigsburg Quotes

A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

No price is too great to pay for inner peace.

Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold.

I'm always content. I hold much more store in contentment than happiness.

Everything was fine, and she had the rare, new sensation of being exactly where she wanted to be.

The moderation of fortunate people comes from the calm which good fortune gives to their tempers.

Silence is the essential condition of happiness.

Happiness is the art of relaxation.

All mankind's unhappiness derives from one thing: his inability to know how to remain in repose in one room.

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.

Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?

Just that, is one of those uncommon moments, those times when you don't wish for something else, for even one thing to be different; when you have no other needs or worries, where your insides are calm, and everything you were ever restless about, anything that had ever given you angst, is quieted to stillness. No steel ball in your chest, no breathless fear. No blue numbness of nearly passing out, no nagging doubts of the backstage mind. All of that, forgotten. It is just rightness, so rare.

Many people think excitement is happiness.... But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.

He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.

The heart at peace is its own reward, needing nothing outside of itself to be fully content.

What is success? It is being able to go to bed each night with your soul at peace

A mind that is characterized by unrest will not be tranquil even in the presence of great calm.

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.

Peace is its own reward.

How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.

Peace, truthfully, is how you feel inside.

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 guess happiness is not a state you want to be in all the time.

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.