Quotes About Contentment

I am a simple girl and do not like partying. Whatever parties I attend are small ones, with my own friends.

I have passed on a lot of things that would have been extremely lucrative, because they were nothing else.

I live in fear of being a contented passenger. I'd rather get parts I can't play.

With every passing year, I feel more fulfilled.

My father passing really, in many ways, was a gift: It made me look at my own happiness and sense of self and realize that I wasn't happy. I had checked all these boxes and achieved all this stuff that I thought made you happy. And I was miserable.

the more refined and intellectual our needs become, the less they are capable of satiety.

In the midst of a thousand clouds and countless waters there is an idle person. By day, he roams the green mountains, at night, he returns to sleep beneath the cliff. Quickly, the seasons pass in serenity, with no worldly bonds. How joyful! What does he depend upon? Quiet, like a large autumn river.

Love everything but do not strive to possess anything.

The best stock to buy is the one you already own.

True luxury is either inestimable or completely free.

Fortunate indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself, and holds a just balance between what he can acquire and what he can use.

what need of wealth and riches when he could lead a simple, contented life

Clean dish towels can be as pleasurable as clean sheets.

I can't stand light. I hate weather. My idea of heaven is moving from one smoke-filled room to another.

Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9 percent of everything you do is for yourself—and there isn't one. —Wei Wu Wei

Life is to short and dull not to have a book you like in hand.

Better by far you should forget and smile / Than that you should remember and be sad.

Here we see how the barrier between Adam and Eve and the tree creates an excessive drive by making the fruit of the tree into something excessively desired. While Adam and Eve can try to content themselves with substitute objects, they remain enchanted by the illusion of what lies out of reach.

True spirituality frees us to live joyfully in the present.

Blessed is he who expects nothing," said Francis of Assisi, "for he shall enjoy everything.

Scripture's commands to "rejoice in the Lord always" (Philippians 4:4)

What kinds of activities bring me joy and delight? What truly replenishes me?

delighting in what we have been given.

The strength he received from Christ was not the strength to change, deny, or defy his circumstances; it was the strength to be content in the midst of them, to surrender to God's loving will for him (Philippians 4:11–13).