Quotes About Contentment

The more patient you are, the more accepting you will be of what is, rather than insisting that life be exactly as you would like it to be.

I'm the first to admit that I always prefer approval over disapproval. It feels better and it's certainly easier to deal with. The more content I've become, however, the less I depend on it for my sense of well-being.

Do I want to be 'right'—or do I want to be happy?

While eating dessert, we ponder what we should do afterward. After that evening, it's "What should we do this weekend?" After we've been out, we walk into the house and immediately turn on the television, pick up the phone, open a book, or start cleaning. It's almost as though we're frightened at the thought of not having something to do, even for a minute.

two rules of harmony. #1) Don't sweat the small stuff, and #2) It's all small stuff.

Regardless of who you are or what you do, however, remember that nothing is more important than your own sense of happiness and inner peace and that of your loved ones. If you're obsessed with getting everything done, you'll never have a sense of well-being!

If we could only live the way we know deep down we should, we would guarantee ourselves a life of richness & fulfillment.

Life isn't all it's cracked up to be. Nothing is ever good enough the way it is.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

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May we never let the things we can't have, or don't have, or shouldn't have, spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have. As we value our happiness let us not forget it.

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Szcz??liwy cz?owiek nie ma przesz?o?ci, a nieszcz??liwy nie ma nic poza ni?

I had written all I was going to write, if the truth had been known, and there is nothing wrong with that. If more writers knew that, the world would be saved a lot of bad books, and more people--men and women alike--could go on to happier, more productive lives.

The persuasive power of normal life is extravagant. To accept less than life when less is not overwhelmingly upon you is—at least for some—unacceptable.

No te niegues a las cosas, y asegúrate de tener siempre algo que no te importe perder. Eso es importante.

I'm not a great hoper, Wade, I guess. We're not walking fast. Others pass us. I just go in for generic hopes. That good comes to me, that I do little harm and die in my sleep.

And I knew that was not a bad thing at all, not for anyone, in any life.

In the thirties, after they were married, they lived simply and only for each other and for the day. They drank some, lived on the road with my father's salesman's job. They had a good time and felt they had little to look back on, and didn't look.

Together—though perhaps only together—they were fully formed. They stayed on the road. Life went on as it had, from the thirties straight into the forties. They owned little—a bit of furniture, their clothes, no car.

No te niegues a las cosas, y asegúrate de tener siempre algo que no te importe perder. Eso es lo importante.

Our lives were passed on to us empty and our task was to make up being happy.

It's why the Delta doesn't progress. It's not having anything, and not really wanting anything, because that would mean change. That would mean taking on more responsibility. Too many of our people are not interested in progress and change.

In the Envoy Corps, you take what is offered, Virginia Vidaura said, somewhere in the corridors of my memory. And that must sometimes be enough.