Quotes About Contentment

There has to be a balance, Vin," he said. "Somehow, we'll find it. The balance between who we wish to be and who we need to be." He sighed. "But for now," he said, nodding to the side, "we simply have to be satisfied with who we are.

Somehow, we'll find it. The balance between whom we wish to be and whom we need to be. But for now, we simply have to be satisfied with who we are.

If you give up what you want most for what you think you should want more, you'll end up miserable.

Happy is the people who need no heroes.

We will live on mangoes and love.

Yeah! Everything is okay!

What separates privilege from entitlement is gratitude.

Stay in your own lane. Comparison kills creativity and joy.

We risk missing out on joy when we get too busy chasing down the extraordinary.

The opposite of "never enough" isn't abundance or "more than you could ever imagine." The opposite of scarcity is enough, or what I call Wholeheartedness.

It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful. —Brother David Steindl-Rast

I don't have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness - it's right in front of me if I'm paying attention and practicing gratitude.

Happiness is tied to circumstance and joyfulness is tied to spirit and gratitude.

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want so that they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you really need to do, in order to have what you want. — Margaret Young

The opposite of scarcity is not abundance; the opposite of scarcity is simply enough.

If the opposite of scarcity is enough, then practicing gratitude is how we acknowledge that there's enough and that we're enough.

What if we're normal and quiet and happy? Does that count? I guess the answer to this is only yes if it counts to us. If what matters to us is what we're concerned about, then play and rest is important. If what matters to us is what other people think or say or value, then it's back to exhaustion and producing for self-worth.

Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good." (Cribbed from Voltaire.) A twenty-minute walk that I do is better than the four-mile run that I don't do. The imperfect book that gets published is better than the perfect book that never leaves my computer. The dinner party of take-out Chinese food is better than the elegant dinner that I never host.

Comparison is the thief of happiness." I can't tell you how many times I'm feeling so good about myself and my life and my family, and then in a split second it's gone because I consciously or unconsciously start comparing myself to other people. As

Comparison is the thief of happiness.

La dicha es lo que sentimos cuando nos permitimos reconocer lo buenas que son las cosas en realidad».

Believe me, comparison sucks the creativity and joy right out of life.

Laura Williams always says, "Comparison is the thief of happiness.

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want so that they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you really need to do, in order to have what you want.