Quotes About Contentment

Inner peace does not go well with endless worries and concerns about what was and what might be. What we do with our minds really matters - what we direct our attention to, and what habits of mind we develop.

Often we... expect and want every day to be just like today. Even though we're not satisfied with today, we settle for security instead of discovery.

That night, though, Dick wakes up crying, but happy too, the bitter aftertaste of a happy ending in his mouth.

When one's expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have

No matter your background, race, or circumstances, the Real You is perfect, and you must come to realize that, learn to love yourself, and understand that you do not need anything beyond yourself to be content. As you will see, you are All-That-Is. Nothing actually exists beyond yourself.

Because I'm too old for tragedy. I like a nice happy ending too.

If I don't make it, I'll be very sad that there are things I didn't do, but I'm happy that I've done what I have.

Hope is very often a refusal to know what is so, and steadfastly it is a refusal to live as if the present moment is good enough and all we really have. Hopeless is the collapse of that refusal, and it looks a lot like depression

Selfishness is like a disease that suffocates our capacity to love. While love asks us to deny ourselves for the sake of another, selfishness demands we put ourselves first at their expense. When we choose to be self-centered, we become less kind and content—more needy, sensitive, and demanding. More unsatisfiable. Moodiness and impatience, laziness and irresponsibility, are only selfishness in disguise.

If a man lives for the glory of God, he stops looking for affirmation from other human beings after every good deed, a pat on the head every time he does his duty. Instead, he throws himself into his role unselfishly. He contents himself with knowing he is fulfilling his purpose in this world and pleasing the God who made him.

G. K. Chesterton: "The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children." And

Good booze, good blues and nothing to do tomorrow. This is actually all anyone needs to be happy.

If good happens, good; if bad happens, good.

Because she competes with no one, no one can compete with her.

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt. Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench. Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner. Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.

People adjust to their circumstances. People subject to the most barbaric cruelty can still delight in a baby's laugh or feel moments of perfect contentment lying on a grassy hillside in the sun. There is something beautiful in our capacity to accommodate atrocity, even if it can also be our undoing.

Although I have had offers of wireless installation for the Fram," he said in one rambling interview, "that also I declined. I don't care for it. It is very much better to be without news when you cannot be where the news comes from. We are always more contented if we get no news. A good book we like, we explorers. That is our best amusement and our best time killer.

And you require no answers", Foamfollower was laughing in his gladness, "You are sufficient to every question".

Grateful souls focus on the happiness and abundance present in their lives and this in turn attracts more abundance and joy towards them.

When we give up the chase, we give up our wishing.

Though money cannot acquire you happiness, it does not mean that both money and happiness cannot exist together.

If we lose all of our wealth and are only left with love then, indeed, we shall never be poor.

Today I am even richer.

Winning is great, but if it's not enough then then you'll never have enough!