Quotes About Contentment

Be happy. It's one way of being wise.

I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.

It was the softest bed she had ever lain in. But then, it was the only bed she had ever lain in.

Att se bojor på en annan människa och vara glad att de inte är ens egna – sådan var den lycka som stod färgade till buds, de som definierades av hur mycket värre det närsomhelst kunde blir.

The luxury of age was the giving up of vanity.

Harry had worked his way through the American Dream and come to the conclusion that is was composed of a good lunch and a deep red wine that could soar.

We could not have found peace unless the desire for it was already here.

although i know that a wall to happiness is expecting too much happiness

His theme was happiness—what it is and what it might not have been, where he might find it and where it might have disappeared.

A bi gezunt, his mother would have said. She was always one for the ancient phrase. You have your health, what more do you want? —

and even at Christmas, there is nothing to be gained by wishing for what one can't possibly have.

Every need I have is met and most of my desires. I have a peace and joy in my life that I don't even understand. So, this can't be anything but God.

Happiness comes from accepting the present situation, whether it's something you wish to savor as long as possible or change as quickly as you can. Neither is possible without acceptance as the starting point, because without acceptance, you are living on the periphery of your life. There at the edges, you can't fully enjoy the god stuff or do anything about the rest

Henry Mitchell, in his book One Man's Garden, observes that it is not important for a garden to be beautiful in everyone's eyes. But it is extremely important for the gardener to think it is a fair substitute for Eden. Perhaps this is an overstatement, or perhaps it is a theological truth.

When a person can't find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.

It is the very pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.

Pleasure in itself cannot give our existence meaning; thus the lack of pleasure cannot take away meaning from life

Whether a life is fulfilled does not depend on how great one's radius of action is, but rather only on whether the circle is fully filled out.

Let us consider, for instance, "Sunday neurosis," that kind of depression which afflicts people who become aware of the lack of content in their lives when the rush of the busy week is over and the void within themselves becomes manifest.

M]an does not live by welfare alone.

As we see, a human being is not one in pursuit of happiness but rather in search of a reason to become happy

Sunday neurosis," that kind of depression which afflicts people who become aware of the lack of content in their lives when the rush of the busy week is over and the void within themselves becomes manifest.

Pleasure is, and must remain, a side-effect or by-product, and is destroyed and spoiled to the degree to which it is made a goal in itself.

Don't aim at success—the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue