Quotes About Contentment

We all appear to ourselves frustrated in our old age...because we cling to everything so much. But in reality we are still fulfilling our lives.

There is no success without peace of mind.

success is not a comparison of what we have done with what others have done.

The only good life is one in which there is no need for miracles.

He didn't want anything new in his life, no matter how beautiful.

There is no man on the face of the earth who can satisfy the deepest longings of a woman's heart--God made us in such a way that we can never be truly satisfied with anything or anyone less than Himself

Gratitude unleashes the freedom to live content in the moment, rather than being anxious about the future or regretting the past.

Gratitude is a lifestyle. A hard-fought, grace-infused, biblical lifestyle.

Isn't it lovely to be lovely me!

And I might offer you a little advice, Fanny, it would be to read fewer books, dear, and make your house slightly more comfortable. That is what a man appreciates in the long run.

I'm not saying I'm glad it happened. Not exactly. But I'm not sorry to be the person I am today, and to have the life I have now. Even though it's not what I thought I wanted for my future, a year ago, it is what I want now. ...

I'm glad, I said, with an effort, refusing to let my mouth close up with jealousy. It wasn't that I wanted a husband and a baby; I didn't, or rather, I only wanted them the way I wanted to live to a hundred someday, far off, never thinking about the particulars. But they meant life: she was living, and I wasn't.

It wasn't that I wanted a husband and a baby; I didn't, or rather, I only wanted them the way I wanted to live to a hundred: someday, far off, never thinking about the particulars.

a clean top over clean showered skin: bliss.

It wasn't that I wanted a husband and a baby; I didn't, or rather, I only wanted them the way I wanted to live to a hundred: someday, far off, never thinking about the particulars. But they meant life: she was living, and I wasn't.

I should rather have you than a heap of gold, even if it were very comfortable to sleep on," Temeraire said. "I do not mind the deck.

Happiness was bubbling up through me, a bright stream laughing.

I'm still the kid dreaming of the lives she'll never have but guess what? Maybe she doesn't want them.

No one lives in these regions of rock and sun. It is a lucky part of the world; to grow old without buildings and roadways, to dissolve quietly without feeling stunned.

Work on what you love, your needs will be met.   No

The secret to happiness is to admire without desiring.

And the ring of your heart-deep laughter: It is much to be warm and sure of to-morrow.

What makes us unhappy is to want. Yet if we would learn to cut our wants to nothing, the smallest thing we'd get would be a true gift.

Only three or four things are worth living for; the rest is shit.