Quotes About Contentment

Jonathan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull's life is so short, and with these gone from his thought, he lived a long fine life indeed.

In order to live free and happily,    you must sacrifice       boredom.                    It is not always an easy                       sacrifice

Não faz sentido desejarmos ter tido um passado que não podemos alterar. Por que é que não havemos de desejar coisas que ainda podemos ter?

Mums reikia tokio atlygio, kur? mes vertiname, -kalb?jo ji, - kitaip didžiausia šlov? neatneš pasitenkinimo ir laim?s.

Neden mutsuz bir hayat sürme zahmetine giresiniz?

It wasn't long before Jonathan Gull was off by himself again, far out at sea, hungry, happy, learning.

If people just took it a day at a time, they'd be a lot happier.

Blaze thought: I'm going somewhere. Then he thought: I am somewhere. The first thought made him happy. The second was so big it made him feel like crying.

It's good you're happy, she said. She said the word happy as if she were looking at it from a great distance through a telescope.

as you begin to eliminate your need for perfection in all areas of your life, you'll begin to discover the perfection in life itself

Don't sweat the small stuff.

When you have what you want (inner peace), you are less distracted by your wants, needs, desires, and concerns. It's thus easier to concentrate, focus, achieve your goals, and to give back to others.

Happiness is a state of mind, not a set of circumstances.

There are two rules for living in harmony. #1) Don't sweat the small stuff and #2) It's all small

Do not sweat the small stuff.

Something wonderful begins to happen with the simple realization that life, like an automobile, is driven from the inside out, not the other way around. As you focus more on becoming more peaceful with where you are, rather than focusing on where you would rather be, you begin to find peace right now, in the present. Then, as you move around, try new things, and meet new people, you carry that sense of inner peace with you. It's absolutely true that "Wherever you go, there you are.

So many people spend so much of their life energy 'sweating the small stuff' that they completely lose touch with the magic and beauty of life.

If you do, there will come a day when you'll rarely feel the need to do battle at all.

If you want to be a more peaceful person you must understand that being right is almost never more important than allowing yourself to be happy.

When you allow yourself to be bored, it takes an enormous amount of pressure off you to be performing and doing something every second of every day. Now, when either of my two children says to me, "Daddy, I'm bored," I respond by saying, "Great, be bored for a while. It's good for you." Once I say this, they always give up on the idea of me solving their problem.

I find that if I remind myself (frequently) that the purpose of life isn't to get it all done

We take simple preferences and turn them into conditions for our own happiness.

One of the most important questions you can ever ask yourself is, "Do I want to be 'right'—or do I want to be happy?" Many times, the two are mutually exclusive!

It doesn't seem to make any difference how much we have; we just keep expanding our list of desires