Quotes About Contentment

My career could go up in smoke and as long as I've got my health and my family then nothing else matters.

I can't be smug, because I know that you can lose anything at any point. And I can't be angry, because I haven't lost it.

It's important to look at what you do have, not what you don't. I'm one of those people who wants a good life, so I do my best to snap out of it.

The goal of a life free of dysphoria is a snare and a delusion. A better goal is of good commerce with the world. Authentic happiness, astonishingly, can occur even in the presence of authentic sadness.

Anytime I can sneak in a moment to fish and ride horses, I'm a happy camper.

If I died snowboarding, you could honestly tell everybody in the world that Jeremy London died happy.

I give so much pleasure to so many people. Why can I not get some pleasure for myself?

The more I speak and travel, I realize I don't have it that bad. There are so many people that have it so much worse than I do.

So many people live lives of silent mediocrity, convinced that what really matters to them is out of their reach. So they settle.

I've been around so many people for so long that I take great delight in my own company.

I can't complain. I think when you get to a certain point, you shouldn't complain because there's so many people who would kill to get to this point.

So many people are focused on reaching the top of an imaginary ladder that they don't enjoy the climb.

In this business I meet so many people. They are all trying to be healthy, but without an inner source they fail. They are not happy with themselves.

I have so much fun and I'm a better person when I'm happy.

I never knew I was poor until I got older because we just had so much fun. I thought everyone had grilled cheese night and that everyone had Cup-O-Noodles for dinner on Fridays.

I think one of the things that is essential for happiness in life, or at least for non-sadness, is producing something. I guess that's why I spend so much time and agony writing books. But working on carpentry is sort of like all the pleasure with none of the agony.

It's great to get an 'F', but you also want to give the sense that there's something outside achievement. I've seen a lot of so-called high-achievers who don't feel they've achieved much.

You can't buy happiness, but you can buy a boat, and for me, that's pretty much the same thing.)

It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas stubbornness and foolhardiness fill their hosts with joy and assurance.

I enjoy books as misers enjoy treasures, because I know I can enjoy them whenever I please.

The soul in which philosophy dwells should by its health make even the body healthy. It should make its tranquillity and gladness shine out from within; should form in its own mold the outward demeanor, and consequently arm it with a graceful pride, an active and joyous bearing, and a contented and good-natured countenance. The surest sign of wisdom is constant cheerfulness.

The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.

Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.

It is an absolute perfection and virtually divine to know how to enjoy our being rightfully. We seek other conditions because we do not understand the use of our own, and go outside of ourselves because we do not know what it is like inside. Yet there is no use our mounting on stilts, for on stilts we must still walk on our own legs. And on the loftiest throne in the world we are still sitting only on our own rump.