Quotes About Contentment

blissful as ignorance

Those who have everything value nothing. Those who have nothing value everything. —RAQUELLA BERTO-ANIRUL, Assessments of Philosophical Revelations

Go find someone who will care for ye good, to sit quiet by yore side at the fire, an' if he treats ye decent as you hoped he would, you'll have all that your heart can desire.

Cool. So glad I got to do all this in a towel.

Relax, Klara, you can finish your one-woman book club as soon as somebody gets home.

Oh God. Goddammit. I never got to see the pyramids. Or the Taj Mahal. I ...I never even got to leave the country. Don't sweat it, brother. You got to live in NYC. You didn't miss shit.

Tis a child that dreams there's something better 'round the corner. It's a grown man who knows it's right there in front of him.

It's foolish to speak of your happiness before you're sure you have it.

There is more to life than just increasing its speed.

I have worried about a lot of things in life, and most of them never happened.

Richard hung up, tears welling up in his eyes. But they were a different kind of tears. They brought with them an overwhelming sense of joy. That's when he realized joy happens when you fit in with your life, when you fit in so harmoniously that whatever you are doing becomes your joy.

How shall we live in order to be happy?" Your ability to ask and answer that question correctly for yourself—and then to follow where your answer leads you—will largely determine whether you achieve your own happiness, and how soon.

Happiness is a condition. It is not something that is achieved by pursuing it directly, but rather comes as a result of our engaging in purposeful activities.

Happiness comes when you believe in what you are doing, know what you are doing, and love what you are doing.

Sometimes we need to let go of things in our lives to make room for better things. Stress less and live more. Don't waste your energy, when you have the choice to be happy.

I have enough in this moment, and I love wanting more from a place of enough. Wanting is only exhausting when we believe we can't have what we want or that if we don't have it, we can't be happy.

You Can't Get Enough… of Something You Don't Really Want I first heard this from one of my favorite authors, Geneen Roth. She was talking about binge eating and describing why we keep eating huge amounts of food beyond fullness and sometimes even beyond feeling sick. She explained: We are trying to get something we desperately want, from something that can't give it to us. In

We should fix ourselves firmly in the presence of God by conversing all the time with Him...we should feed our soul with a lofty conception of God and from that derive great joy in being his. We should put life in our faith. We should give ourselves utterly to God in pure abandonment, in temporal and spiritual matters alike, and find contentment in the doing of His will,whether he takes us through sufferings or consolations.

How happy we would be if we could find the treasure of which the Gospel speaks; all else would be as nothing. As it is boundless, the more you search for it the greater the riches you will find; let us search unceasingly and let us not stop until we have found it.

I may be envied by ambitious persons, but I in turn envy the person who can transact his daily business and retire to a quiet home without a feeling of responsibility for the morrow.

You earthlings! You never know what you want. If you'd stop trying to hold on to everything, you'd be a lot happier.

You know why it's hard to be happy—it's because we refuse to LET GO of the things that make us sad.

Then I ran to her and our relatives laughed. The knots of bystanders were horrified at the loss of her expensive tusk ornaments, but with my hand firmly clasped in hers she reminded them, with her face beaming,'When has it ever been a virtue to be rich in wealth and poor in people?' The relatives nodded. They understood her very well- why have heaven an earth when you have no one to share it with?

In David Copperfield, Charles Dickens's character Wilkins Micawber pronounced a now-famous law: Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen pounds nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.