Kenneth Grahame Quotes

HELPED are those who live in quietness, knowing neither brand name nor fad; they shall live every day as if in eternity, and each moment shall be as full as it is long.

When it is possible, I choose to have a quiet life.

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

I want to live quietly.

Happiness is a simple everyday miracle, like water, and we are not aware of it.

As we start to get a little bit older, boy, keep your house in order. That's the key thing. It's not about the thrills anymore. It's about contentment, about having some serenity.

A voice of greeting from the wind was sent; The mists enfolded me with soft white arms; The birds did sing to lap me in content, The rivers wove their charms, And every little daisy in the grass Did look up in my face, and smile to see me pass!

A man of wisdom delights in water.

Again I resume the long lesson: how small a thing can be pleasing, how little in this hard world it takes to satisfy the mind and bring it to its rest.

Egolessness is contentment. Egoless, you don't expect anything, and just a small child smiles at you, but it is so beautiful. What else could you need? Suddenly you see a flower and the flower sends its perfume to you. What else could you need? What more could you want? The whole sky goes on filling with stars, the whole life becomes a celebration because now everything is beautiful. Without expectation everything fulfills - just to breathe is enough, just to breathe is such a bliss.

I would rather sit still in a state of peace on a stone than ride in the motor-car of a multi-millionaire and feel the peacelessness of the multi-millionaire poisoning me.

Happiness is never grand.

He who has few things to desire cannot have many to fear.

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

Happiness is, in truth, a very cheap thing, when the heart will be contented to traffic with nature - art has quite a different price.

To have her meals, and her daily walk, and her fill of novels, and to be left alone, was all that she asked of the gods.

What sweet delight a quiet life affords.

If one's life is simple, contentment has to come.

All goes back to the earth, and so I do not desire pride of excess or power, but the contentments made by men who have had little: the fisherman's silence receiving the river's grace, the gardener's musing on rows.

What a brave privilege is it to be free from all contentions, from all envying or being envied, from receiving or paying all kinds of ceremonies!

A nothing day full of wild beauty .... Little fish stream by, a river in water.

There's no shame in enjoying the quiet life.

With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of all these things.

Sit Rest Work. Alone with yourself, Never weary. On the edge of the forest Live joyfully, Without desire.

And where was happiness if it sprung not from the soil? Where contentment if it dwelt not near to Nature?