Quotes About Contentment

What would it be like if I could accept life--accept this moment--exactly as it is?

Nothing is wrong—whatever is happening is just "real life.

Stepping out of the busyness, stopping our endless pursuit of getting somewhere else, is perhaps the most beautiful offering we can make to our spirit.

Rather than relaxing and enjoying who we are and what we're doing, we are comparing ourselves with an ideal and trying to make up for the difference.

When we get lost in our stories, we lose touch with our actual experience. Leaning into the future, or rehashing the past, we leave the living experience of the immediate moment. Our trance deepens as we move through the day driven by "I have to do more to be okay" or "I am incomplete; I need more to be happy." These "mantras" reinforce the trance-belief that our life should be different from what it is.

Our enjoyment is tainted by anxiety about keeping what we have and our compulsion to reach out and get more.

myself, "What would it be like if I could accept life—accept this moment—exactly as it is?

REFLECTION Pause and let yourself sink into this moment, into presence, into your heart. Gently say to yourself, "There's nothing to do. This is enough . . . I am enough." Feel the fullness and peace of coming home.

I have just two instructions for you this week. One is to breathe, and one is to smile.

Living in the future creates the illusion that we are managing our life and steels us against personal failure.

Todo nuestro disfrute está enturbiado por la ansiedad por conservar lo que poseemos y por nuestra necesidad compulsiva de ampliarlo.

true freedom is being "without anxiety about imperfection.

When we relax about imperfection, we no longer lose our life moments in the pursuit of being different and in the fear of what is wrong.

Kakva korist od bogatstva i sjaja ako u sebi osje?aš bijedu i sirotinju?

Happiness is like good health. You only miss it when it disappears.

Fizz had a phrase for those manic occasions when you scaled every final peak, fell off the other side and passed out. Mightysatiety. The oblivion of maximum pleasure.

they will never mock her either, because all the things that she has, she can never lose.

There is no peace that cannot be found in the present moment.

When I'm working in the barn or house I often think of all the errors I've made in my life. But then I quickly put that behind me and think of water lilies. They will always eradicate unpleasant thoughts. Or goslings are equally comforting in their own way.

Being alone is best. I mean, it's true, isn't it? In the end you'll be absolutely alone; therefore, being alone is natural. If you accept that, nothing bad can happen. That's why I shut myself away in my six-mat one-room apartment.

Why would she want to come back here and live?' I wondered. 'Doesn't seem like she'd want to.' 'Why do you say that?' 'She seems different, that's all.' 'I don't know,' Bud said. 'You might be confusing different with dissatisfied.

Sometimes when you like where you end up, you don't care how you got there.

Yesterday I sat under the hickory tree in the front yard. It's the only place where I find rest and just feel fine. I know fine isn't a lot, but it's rare for me these days. Even when I'm happy, there is something in between me and whatever good news comes my way. It's like eating a butterscotch still sealed in the wrapper.

He used to say, 'Accident of birth is the number one predictor of happiness.