Quotes About Contentment

Learn to be thankful in the midst of your unique "whatever" rather than trying to control something you were never meant to control in the first place. You see, God is more concerned with your attitude and your obedience in the role in which he has presently cast you than he is about giving you a starring role in life.

We must cease making odious and odorous comparisons and instead embrace our current lot in life—our past, present, and future—welcoming all that God will teach us through it. Only then we will discover the secret Paul knew—that true contentment isn't merely having what we want; it's wanting nothing more than what we already have.

S? te bucuri de clipa prezent? înseamn? s? accep?i cu bucurie cine e?ti în acel moment.

Old age. I don't know when it really starts, and I'm not interested in finding out. Julia pretty much ignored the whole thing, and that may be the only real lesson there is for the end of our days. Just pretend like it isn't happening, until you have no choice but to accept reality. If you're lucky, like Julia, you'll die peacefully in your sleep after having enjoyed a dinner of onion soup.

You don't have to wait for happiness, because there's no time but now to be happy. You don't have to go somewhere else, because there's no place but here to find it. You don't have to do something else, because there's nothing more to it. You don't have to get something else, because everything you already have is enough. You just have to be happy. ...

What if you suddenly saw through all your fear and ignorance, your restless craziness, and realized that you already possess what you are looking for because you already are everything you are looking for?

Freedom is instantaneous the moment we accept things as they are.

Happiness is not a science, an art or an outcome. It can't be qualified, procured or consumed. It's not invented, but comes naturally made from mud, honeysuckle, pitted olives, and doting grand dads...it's what we are when we are utterly ourselves in unaffected ease.

You have to step through the gate, the false barrier of your critical mind, to see all the ways we habitually reject the very place our lives have landed us. And then, we have to stop plotting an escape. That's what practice is for: staying put.

You can't fill a hole that doesn't exist.

It's not so bad to find yourself free of the effort to overcome your life. It's not so bad.

The world doesn't need another wanderlusting soul seeker. The world needs a homemaker - me - to make my home within it.

My philosophy is pretty simple – any day nobody's trying to kill me is a good day in my book.

It seemed Barrons had finally gotten his cake and eaten it too.

Sometimes the small pleasures in life are the sweetest.

I hope when I'm ninety-five the only things I want are free: love, family, a good home-cooked meal.

Damn it's good to be me" Adam Black on being Adam Black.

Hell would be waking up and wanting nothing

Do I love him? Yes. Is he perfect? No. Am I? No. Will I leave him? No. Okay, that's resolved. Time for a nap.

Find a better balloon. One that's real. Life is messy, complicated, and difficult. Relish it as it is. Quit expecting it to change. You might find you feel, well, normal then," he mocks. "And realize life never was normal. You were just happy. Be it again. Your choice.

Joy, that elusive, priceless commodity, was once again his.

Wishes aren't horses and I don't get to ride.

They did not want to be normal anymore, which only they knew. All they wanted was a roaring fire, a beach, and a wintry day with a friend.

You know you're in a good place when you no longer are interested in looking back. You prefer to enjoy the journey.