Quotes About Contentment

If you don't love yourself it's tough to love anything about your life. Appreciating who you are is essential to your happiness.

Let go of your worries. Hold on to this moment.

Life is short. So do the things which make you happy. And be with people who make you happy. Look for the good in every day - even if some days you have to look harder.

don't let the pursuit of happiness stop you from being happy right here, right now.

Your mission: Be so busy loving your life that you have no time for hate, regret or fear.

Sometimes I long for a good old-fashioned Walton Christmas. You know, the kind where you give someone an apple or wooden whistle and they go into cardiac arrest from sheer ecstasy.

Because whether I live for another seventy years or another week, what's the point if I'm not living the life I want?

You will never be truly happy if you keep holding on to the things that make you sad.

I stared back at him, trying to think of a way to explain how I'd eradicated the word "want" from my vocabulary long ago and replaced it with "need." It made life so much easier that way, blowing away all the unnecessary and distracting clutter from a life of purpose, much like I imagined a storm sweeping away anything not strong enough to withstand the struggle.

My mom would say that crying for the moon is a lot like sitting in a rocking chair: It keeps you busy but it won't get you anywhere.

Been there, done that, bought the T-shirt, thank you very much. Have no interest in a repeat performance." So

My mother once told me that a lifetime of good enough was a fair price to pay for a single moment of pure happiness.

Now while it's hanging in the gallery I pine for it. But once it's on my own wall, perhaps it will be different -- once it's here all the time, every time I lift my eyes ... when I come into the living room in the morning and in the evening ... Will it make me happy? Yes, a voice inside him said, it will make you happy.

Love doesn't keep you in a constant state of turmoil. It gives you peace.

Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.

When the end of the world comes, I want to be living in retirement.

You have to like the present if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough." - Meister Eckhardt

True happiness, self-development, freedom, comes from inside - and is expressed externally in bright faces, a big smile, and plenty of laughing. Just look at the Dalai Lama.

get into something that you love, that you have an aptitude for, and where you're totally happy.

It's my responsibility to be as happy as I can, right here, today.

most people have a deep desire, and are searching, for peace of mind and the ability to truly love and be loved unconditionally.

If you're going to remember anything from your past, then do so fondly because you can't change a thing about it.

I buy food and gasoline - that's it.