Quotes About Contentment

The best place to start an adventure is with a quiet, perfect life … and someone who realizes that it can't possibly be enough.

There's no better feeling in the world than a warm pizza box on your lap.

Unhappiness comes from wanting what others have. Happiness is wanting what you already have.

Yes, some people are so impoverished all they have is money.

Things were good. He had things to look forward to. That, for now, was to be his definition of living - to always have a thing to look forward to.

Happiness can't be bottled. It can't be smoked, swallowed, shot or ejaculated. And there is no end game: you never cross the finish line and are suddenly happy. Even when all your wildest dreams come true, you still pursue happiness.

But do you enjoy it?" Annie asked. Raven stared at Annie's reflection in the mirror. "I don't hate it," Raven said. "You spend enough time with anything, that's all you can really ask for.

Here's the thing, sweetie. If you love something, you can't think too much about what went into making it or the circumstances around it. You just have to, I don't know, love the thing as it is. And then it's just for you, right?

And we made it. The kids were happy. They had added another to their numbers. They didn't want to set the world on fire. They just wanted to be less alone in it.

feeling the world flatten out. I started to care less about the future. I cared more about making the present tolerable. And time passed.

Being rich, of course, meant it was easier to just keep getting what you wanted. It took less and less effort to keep it.

I lived a life where I had less than I desired. So instead of wanting more, sometimes I just made myself want even less. Sometimes I made myself believe that I wanted nothing, not even food or air. And if I wanted nothing, I'd just turn into a ghost. And that would be the end of it.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

Beyond ?abr there is yet another stage of submission to and satisfaction with the Will of Allah; and that is the core of ri??' bi'l-qa??'. Try to focus your vision on that. Attempt to perceive the goodness which Allah has placed for you in any apparently adverse situation. For

In solitude is bliss.

My personal goals are to be happy, healthy and to be surrounded by loved ones.

If you want to ever achieve happiness, don't dwell on the past. Instead, start living. What is the point of obsessing over something that has already happened, and that you cannot change? Live! And be merry.

It's a full life, and a merry one.

I'm like a kid waiting my turn for ice cream: "I want it now!" But these things never make me truly satisfied. They give me a quick buzz followed by a severe low and leave me wanting more of the same high.

The lesson is simple. Be patient, stay put.

Money may not buy happiness, but it buys a hell of a lot of distraction from unhappiness