Quotes About Contentment

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expense, and my expense is equal to my wishes.

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

To try to be happy is to try to build a machine with no other specification than that it shall run noiselessly.

Giving thanks all year round, all the time, often give you more to be thankful for. - STRONG: Powerful Philosophy for Timeless Thoughts by Kailin Gow.

I know that whatever you decide, you'll be happy, Summer, and that is the only thing I could ever wish. Whatever happens in the rest of this summer, whatever happens the rest of your life, it's important that you are happy, and stay that way. – Aunt Sookie

To not satisfy you would be a tragedy." - Salvatore from The Tutor by Kailin Gow

Whatever happens in the rest of this summer, whatever happens the rest of your life, it's important that you are happy, and stay that way.", Loving Summer by Kailin Gow

It's greener on the other side, but it's rainbows and gold on mine. - Kailin Gow

Si l'on considère la petitesse dévolue à la coupe du bonheur humain, la promptitude avec laquelle elle déborde de larmes, la facilité avec laquelle nous la vidons jusqu'à la lie dans notre soif inapaisable d'infini, qui pourrait bien nous reprocher de faire si grand cas d'une simple tasse de thé ?

Perfection is everywhere if we only choose to recognise it.

I will always be the way I was a couple years ago before anything happened. And that's to my parents' credit, my amazing parents who have been around me my whole life and raised me right. I'm very happy with what has happened so far.

Today well lived makes every yesterday a memory of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope.

Be a forgiver creature not a revenge taker because contentness from forgiving someone is more persuasive than hatred.

The world won't get more or less terrible if we're indoors somewhere with a mug of hot chocolate,' Kim said. 'Though it's possible it will seem slightly less terrible if there are marshmallows in the hot chocolate.

The world won't get more or less terrible if we're indoors somewhere with a mug of hot chocolate.

Reality depends upon your mind alone.[34] If your mind is not at peace what use are riches?

Idet jeg kender mig selv og verden, har jeg ingen ambitioner og blander mig ikke i verden. Jeg søger kun sindsro og fred og jeg glædes over fravær af sorger.

This time for sure... we'll be happy.

Man does not seek world peace. He seeks self-peace.

The man who toils for toils sake does so only to satisfy himself that he has "toiled," as the world as told him to do. And if he does not find Truth, he is content to say that he did the necessary toil and still did not find it, and thus it wasn't meant to be.

What would be the nature of a person's life if he did not seek pleasure? A: He would live a life of equanimity. He would be content and complete in each moment. Though he may involve himself in lofty pursuits, his contentedness and completeness would go with him. He would have abandoned the ceaseless chase. And when a man no longer feels the need to chase, life begins to chase him.

there anything more important in your life than living in bliss? Then understand that time is not your friend.

Miserable is what a man becomes when he hankers for happiness.