Quotes About Contentment

The best thing you can say about an ending is that it made you happy you read it, but sad that it's over. It really is that simple. 23.

My dear Scipio and Laelius. Men, of course, who have no resources in themselves for securing a good and happy life find every age burdensome. But those who look for all happiness from within can never think anything bad which Nature makes inevitable.

The man who has a garden and a library has everything.

A life of usefulness, literature and religion, was not by any means a life of event.

Not all satisfaction is sexual, and not all pain is suffering." Jaime

Even if we are different from each other, as long as I can be with her and create happiness for two people with her, then that's enough for me.

I have put my arm down forever to interrupt the men who want more hair. from the poem Pasadena collected in Own Face (1978)

what's most important to you in your career? The problem is that what we think matters most in our jobs often does not align with what will really make us happy.

We should always remember that beyond a certain point, hygiene factors such as money, status, compensation, and job security are much more a by-product of being happy with a job rather than the cause of it. Realizing this frees us to focus on the things that really matter.

The opposite of job dissatisfaction isn't job satisfaction, but rather an absence of job dissatisfaction.

We should always remember that beyond a certain point, hygiene factors such as money, status, compensation, and job security are much more a by-product of being happy with a job rather than the cause of it.

Finding Happiness in Your Career The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. —Steve Jobs

But as soon as you find yourself focusing on the tangible aspects of your job, you are at risk of becoming like some of my classmates, chasing a mirage. The next pay raise, you think, will be the one that finally makes you happy. It's a hopeless quest.

The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family. —Thomas Jefferson

three simple questions beside those theories: How can I be sure that I will be successful and happy in my career? My relationships with my spouse, my children, and my extended family and close friends become an enduring source of happiness? I live a life of integrity—and stay out of jail?

Read with joy!

Squatted beside the fire, with the warmth of it upon his face and hands, he felt a smug contentment that seemed strangely out of place--the contentment of a man who had reduced his needs to the strictly basic--and with the contentment came a full-bodied confidence that was just as out of place.

It must be wonderful, I thought, to be, not exactly rich, but to have enough so you didn't have to worry when there was some little thing you wanted, not to have to wonder if it would be all right if you spent the money for it. To be able to live in a house like this, to line the walls with books and have rich draperies and to have more than just one bottle of booze and a place to keep it other than a kitchen shelf.

However this miraculous place worked, it seemed real enough. The sun was hot, the soda was cold, the sky was blue, the grass was green. What more did he need to know?

Indifference was the best remedy. Once you conceded defeat, life was a feather bed.

The flawlessly beautiful were flawlessly happy, weren't they?

Go like hell and go to the grave satisfied." He

Time spent with a cat is never wasted.

What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.