Quotes About Contentment

A deep life is a good life.

So next time you start to question whether you're missing out on some dream job waiting for you to muster the courage to pursue it, conjure up a pair of images. First, recall passion-obsessed Thomas, heartbroken and sobbing on the forest floor. Then replace this with the image of the smiling, confident, value-focused man who ten years later joined me for coffee—the version of Thomas who looked at me at one point in our conversation and remarked, without irony, "Life is good.

You see how few things you have to do to live a satisfying and reverent life?

The more we focused on loving what we do, the less we ended up loving it.

Put another way: minimalists don't mind missing out on small things; what worries them much more is diminishing the large things they already know for sure make a good life good.

When you focus only on what your work offers you, it makes you hyperaware of what you don't like about it, leading to chronic unhappiness.

a life well lived requires activities that serve no other purpose than the satisfaction that the activity itself generates.

if your life consists only of actions whose "worth depends on the existence of problems, difficulties, needs, which these activities aim to solve," you're vulnerable to the existential despair that blooms in response to the inevitable question, Is this all there is to life? One solution to this despair, he notes, is to follow Aristotle's lead and embrace pursuits that provide you a "source of inward joy.

Don't you know that four fifths of all our troubles in this life would disappear if we would just sit down and keep still?

It has been my observation in life that, if one will only exercise the patience to wait, his wants are likely to be filled.

People in their 70s can still have incredible lives. Health is the most important thing.

After eating the world's bread, we wake each morning to remember: We are still hungry. Seek a better loaf. Eat, and never die. Taste, savor, and be filled forever.

Forse un giorno si arriverà ad essere tutti sereni, e non capiremo più tante cose perché capiremo tutto.

What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have.

So I chose one, and Harry kept the other... we have been living happily ever after, building the room that is our love, our home, inside our hearts from that day to this. We build it, still, for as long as we draw breath.

es hora de seguir adelante, de dejar de lamentarse por lo que podría haber tenido y alegrarme de lo que de hecho tengo.

It warmed Erica's heart

Este estado de felicidad y paz, y no las posesiones materiales, es la medida del pensamiento correcto; la infelicidad, no la falta de posesiones materiales, es la medida del pensamiento errado.

lo molesta lo suficiente como para quejarse, pero no lo suficiente como para moverse.

Maybe a little bit of happiness doesn't mean I'll be sadder, later down the line.

Dawn 5am: the frogs ask what is it, what is it? It is what it is.

When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky." —Buddha

It doesn't matter where you live, Sang Ly, it is how you live.

Life never stops, child. Even when it's noisy, unpleasant, painful, it's still the sound of duty, of love, of family, of laws older than time that help us to ultimately find contentment- to be happy. It's the sound of our universe. It's the sound of purpose.