Quotes About Contentment

Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal.

To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problem of contentment.

There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely. The condemned man has that joy.

Nobody is so miserable as he who longs to be somebody other than the person he is.

'Tis a gift to be simple, 'tis a gift to be free. 'Tis a gift to come round to where we ought to be. And when we find a place that feels just right, We will be in the valley of love and delight.

I'd rather be a failure at something I enjoy than a success at something I hate.

Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.

Prudence keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.

Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may, he will only feel satisfaction as he is satisfied in himself.

When people say: she's got everything, I've only one answer: I haven't had tomorrow.

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

I exist as I am, that is enough, If no other in the world be aware, I sit content, And if each and all be aware, I sit content.

Believing in our hearts that who we are is enough is the key to a more satisfying and balanced life.

Contentment, and indeed usefulness, comes as the infallible result of great acceptances, great humilities-of not trying to conform to some dramatized version of ourselves.

Resolve to be thyself ... he who finds himself loses his misery!

There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely.

Do not wish to be anything but what you are.

Our entire life ... consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

I've finally stopped running away from myself. Who else is there better to be?

Of all the young men in America only a few hundred can get into major league baseball, and of these only a handful in a decade can get into the Hall of Fame. So it goes in all human activity. ... Some become multimillionaires and chairmen of the board, and some of us must be content to play baseball at company picnics or manage a credit union without pay.

Learn to ... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

There is a proper balance between not asking enough of oneself and asking or expecting too much.

Success doesn't necessarily make you a happy person ... but without the confidence and security that comes from being totally happy, I believe you cannot achieve your true potential and ultimate success.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling that desire.