Quotes About Contentment

hell is wanting to be somewhere different from where you are. Being one place and wanting to be somewhere else . . . . Wanting life to be different from what it is. That's also called leaving without leaving. Dying before you die. It's as if there is a part of you that so rails against being shattered by love that you shatter yourself first. (p. 44)

Treat yourself as if you already are enough. Walk as if you are enough. Eat as if you are enough. See, look, listen as if you are enough. Because it's true.

Weight loss does not make people happy. Or peaceful. Being thin does not address the emptiness that has no shape or weight or name. Even a wildly successful diet is a colossal failure because inside the new body is the same sinking heart.

You will never stop wanting more until you allow yourself to have what you already have. To take it in. Savor it. Now is a good time to do that . . .

I've got sunshine in my stomach

The idea of a hot bath hung in the future like the promise of Christmas or a new book in a favourite series.

waking up in bed on a morning with nothing urgent to do, a pile of books next to you, and a mug of coffee within arm's reach could be described as good.

Most of my actor friends don't believe it's possible to let go of it and be happy, and for a while that was true for me. For the first two years I ached, every day. And I had such bad dreams. But then I made the decision to start working on my little shop and all that went away.

the question i am asked daily by the world... was that all you wanted?

What thyng we may nat lightly have,Thereafter wol we crie al day and crave.

Fy on possessiounBut if a man be vertuous withal.

Prosperity depends more on wanting what you have than having what you want.

I don't need three cars and a great big fucking house [for two people]. But I do and I want it. This is the issue.

Never let them try out this gratitude, for they would immediately discover that it supplies the first and most important component to happiness: Contentment.

Life, liberty and the pursuit of gratitude, now that would've worked. They would have been readily led to contentment, which would've then better lead them on to happiness.

They think that if they were allowed to do anything they desired, they would be satisfied and the more desires the better. But all desires divorced from The Desire eventually collapse in on themselves.

wer am meisten genießt, betet am meisten.

The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.

Man loves company, even if it is only that of a smoldering candle.

Nothing is more conductive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.

Nada puede contribuir tanto a la tranquilidad del alma como no tener opinión alguna.

Happiness, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some simple issue, some single turning of the soul.

A bird in the hand may be worth two in the bush, but remember also that a bird in the hand is a positive embarrassment to one not in the poultry business.

The wealthy have nothing left except money.