Quotes About Contentment

I don't spend much money on clothes I never did.

He's back to eating cat food around the clock. And no abdominal workouts for that one. Every day of the year is fat cat day in his book.

I live in my own little world. But its ok, they know me here.

His happiness made him look super cute, too.

It's okay if you're not exactly happy, I think. Maybe you're on the way to being happy

Don't give away what you have, but don't let what you have all you ever have.

And I saw and still see everything that I do have, but no matter what, there is always the itch of what gets lost.

I found the guy! After more than twenty years of being single and jerked around and cheated on and alone, I found my soul mate. Pardon my French, but you think I give a shit about the flowers?

Guides will give various practices, but rarely do Murids perform them and even more rarely with any kind of consistency. Many people run around from Sheikh to Sheikh or therapist to therapist, trying to get answers. Often the problem is that these people never truly put into effect the answers they have already been given. Rather than always looking for more, more, more, they should use what they have already been given.

Will is seen as the source of all suffering, since willing never brings contentment, but only further desire!

The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

Don't worry about middle age ?????

Man must realize that improvement of the quality of experience is more important than the acquisition of useless artifacts and material possessions.

There is no such thing as real happiness in life. The justest definition that was ever given of it was "a tranquil acquiescence under an agreeable delusion"--I forget where.

Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.

When the grass looks greener on the other side of the fence, it may be that they take better care of it there.

The measure of happiness is merely the difference between expectations and outcomes. It is not concerned with what one possesses – it is concerned with how content one is with what one possesses.

There is no more pressure on my rudder, he once remarked. Plain sailing, no drag on other people either. A bit of dancing now and then, that's fine. I still see those girls, but I pretend they're paintings. Or advertisements. But that was only later.

It bothers you, doesn't it?" Mia said suddenly. "I think you can't imagine. Why anyone would choose a different life from the one you've got. Why anyone might want something other than a big house with a big lawn, a fancy car, a job in an office. Why anyone would choose anything different than what you'd choose.

This is it, Marilyn told herself. Let it go. This is what you have. Accept it.

Não há outro sítio para onde seguir a não ser em frente. Ainda assim, uma parte dela anseia regressar por um instante - não para mudar o que quer que seja, nem sequer para falar com Lydia, nem para lhe dizer nada. Simplesmente abrir a porta e ver a filha ali, a dormir, uma vez mais, e saber que está tudo bem.

Is there anything that gives you a deeper sense of satisfaction?

His mind, for the moment, gone blissfully blank.

enough, we had enough time, any of this was enough?