Quotes About Contentment

I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy.

I love what I do, I can't imagine doing anything else, but ultimately, my goal is to be happy and have a family. That's my life.

Even if some days I feel like I'm ready to fall apart, I am ultimately happier than I've ever been. My family gives me more joy than I thought possible, and my career fulfills me tremendously. All in all, I feel like am in the exact place I am supposed to be in, doing exactly what I am supposed to be doing.

Ultimately, I'm fine with everything that I've done.

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.

Being 'contented' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.

Most of us have considerable prosperity in our lives. Often, we are so busy pursuing our unmet desires that we are unable to enjoy all that we already have. Allowing ourselves to really appreciate the prosperity we have created is a big step toward opening to even greater fulfillment.

Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.

I married my best friend, and I couldn't ask for anything more. He's an unbelievable person.

You'll have an unbelievable sense of calm when you have a baby.

A daily portion is really all we need. We do not need tomorrow's supply, for that day has not yet dawned, and its needs are still unborn.

When you're at war, you think about a better life; when you're at peace you think about a more comfortable one.

There is an illusion that has much to do with... most of our unhappiness.... We expect too much.

Not just personal unhappiness but all strife in life, including war, is the result of an over-emphasis on temporary things; money, power and material possession

We go to gain a little patch of ground that hath in it no profit but the name.

As long as people overlook matters, then inferiors can, without any fear, lead an easy and peaceful life.

If you can't change it don't worry about it.

Being peaceful may not be exciting like being at war, but it is the bliss and joy of life that you really enjoy.

As long as greed is the root of all evil, there will not be peace.Get rid of selfishness and greed too will disappear.

Happiness is anyone and anything that's loved by you.

Marriage is like a hot bath; once you get used to it, it ain't so hot.

You know you're in love when you stop comparing.

Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband.