Quotes About Contentment

In the autumn of your years don't make it so that what you look back on is regret. Live your life now so that whatever you do gives some sunshine before you head into the winter of your life.

If you knew the power within yourself to be truly happy, to be truly whole, then you would never ask another to become the image you desire for yourself, in order to be happy and whole.

Your dreams will come true, but do not be overly demanding. Be logical – there are not enough mansions for everyone in the world, are there?

The more you give, the less you need.

You must wake up to the truth that whoever you are, that whatever you have or think you do not have, you are perfect in the here and now. Unless you can accept yourself, you will never be satisfied with anything, because it all begins with yourself.

Giving materialistically is the soft option, but when you give from what you do for others then your reward is immeasurable contentment.

Some find that they are content with little, while others find that they want much, much more. Still others create and manifest many things, only to later discover that it was the creation which brought them greater joy and satisfaction, more so than the actual possession or enjoyment of those creations.

Abundance does not come in packages, it comes from the happiness within.

OK you maybe can't buy happiness with Cosmic Ordering, but it's much better crying in a mansion than in a hovel.

Love is not jealous, angry or afraid.

Being joyous or happy is not something you should feel guilty about.

If there is a void in your life then you will never fill it with cash!

Imagine repeating the power words 'love' or 'happiness' for five minutes twice a day for the rest of your life, amazing things could happen.

As human beings, we are custom made to be happy. Why then would we want to change the order of things by not being happy?

When you do not see the beauty in the things around you, nothing will be adequate to you.

Resentment's appetite is never fulfilled.

If you have one wish, wish for everything to be exactly as it is. Then wait patiently for your wish to come true.

Happy is what happens when all your dreams come true.

You may know what you need, but to get what you want, better see that you keep what you have.

How easy and delightful life might be if we could do this, if when we had attained the position we wished we might rest on our oars and watch the ripples on the stream of life.

It seems such a pity that we can learn to value what we have only thru the loss of it. Truly 'we will never miss the water till the well runs dry.' -Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Farm Home (11) , October 20, 1919

I think there are always compensations. The trouble is we do not recognize them. We usually are so busily longing for things we can't have that we overlook what we have in their place, that is even more worth while. Sometimes we realize our happiness only by comparison after we have lost it. It really appears to be true that, To appreciate Heaven well A man must have some 15 minutes of Hell. Laura Ingalls Wilder; The Farm Home (13) , November 20, 1919

It's sad when you can't make everyone happy, though. It's impossible but, at the same time, you still hope. You think, 'Maybe I can do it ' but you know you can't. But gosh, if I had to rely on giving people what they wanted, I would have had to write 40 billion different books and even then, I wouldn't get it right.

We were probably as happy as anyone can be in our world.