Quotes About Contentment

I am a lover of what is, not because I'm a spiritual person, but because it hurts when I argue with reality. We can know that reality is good just as it is, because when we argue with it, we experience tension and frustration. We don't feel natural or balanced. When we stop opposing reality, action becomes simple, fluid, kind, and fearless.

You're just suffering from the belief that there's something missing from your life. In reality, you always have what you need.

When I am perfectly clear, what is is what I want.

We all do emotional gymnastics to be seen as wonderful or funny—just to get what we already have. And because we're doing the gymnastics, we don't see that we already have it.

Dying is everything they were looking for in life.

I already please everyone, and I already have everyone's approval, though I don't expect them to realize it yet.

He is just like everyone else, except that he no longer believes that in this moment things should be different than they are. Therefore in all circumstances he remains at ease in the world, is efficient without the slightest effort, keeps his lightness of heart whatever happens, and, without intending to, acts with kindness toward himself and everyone else. He is who you are once you meet your mind with understanding.

Heaven: "This is wonderful. I could stay here forever." Hell: "This is not quite perfect.

If I believe I need something I don't have I'm insane.

Whatever happens is the best thing that could happen.

Whatever you get is what you need.

How do I know I don't need what I want? I don't have it.

That's like saying, "May my will be done, not God's will," rather than realizing, deeply, that God's will is your will at every moment. It's trying to get what you want, rather than wanting what you have, which is the only way you can ever be happy.

I cannot need what I don't have, so I always have everything I need, and everyone does.

Nothing external can disturb us. We suffer only when we want things to be different from what they are.

The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is. Baruch Spinoza

Quisiera hoy ser feliz de buena gana

Hati yang penuh dengan kebencian tidak akan pernah mengenal kata puas. Kebencian adalah bara api kejam yang menghabiskan energi orang yang menghidupinya.

have done. I am thankful however for what 1 have

To grow in your passion for what Jesus has done, increase your understanding of what He has done. Never be content with your grasp of the gospel. The gospel is life-permeating, world-altering, universe-changing truth. It has more facets than any diamond. Its depths man will never exhaust.

And if you can't shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade it by too much contact with the world, by too much activity and talk. Try not to degrade it by dragging it along, taking it around and exposing it so often to the daily silliness of social events and parties, until it comes to seem a boring hanger-on.

If you cannot fashion your life as you would like, endeavour to do this at least, as much as you can: do not trivialize it through too much contact with the world, through too much activity and chatter. Do not trivialize your life by parading it, running around and displaying it in the daily stupidity of cliques and gatherings until it becomes like a tiresome guest. (As Much As You Can)

She believed in the principle of enoughness. from About Alice

Someone who managed to navigate the tricky waters between living a life you could be proud of and still delighting in the many things there are to take pleasure in.