Quotes About Contentment

We say we have to work so hard in in order to get so little in life. That little may be more than we need. Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.

Don't feel guilty about saying no to the nonessentials in life! — simplicity is saying yes to joy by saying no to overmuch overwhelm overdoing overhaving overbeing

In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness.

In the country sometimes I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them.

Life is amazingly good when it's simple and amazingly simple when it's good.

If you're enjoying your anxieties, then for goodness' sake do not go skipping!

May sleep envelop you as a bed sheet floating gently down, tickling your skin and removing every worry. Reminding you to consider only this moment.

The thing that goes the farthest toward making life worth while, That costs the least, and does the most, is just a pleasant smile.

A smile is as good as a prayer...

Every day you spend without a smile is a lost day.

Nothing is so fundamental to the spiritual life as learning to give thanks.

Aunt Crete gasped with joy. The thought of the ocean, was wonderful. she had dreamed of it many times,but never had seen it, because she was always the one who could just as well stay at home as not. ? - Grace Livingston Hill, Aunt Crete's Emancipation

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either extreme egotism, selfishness, evil -- or else an absolute ignorance.

We've got to cut the extraneous out of our lives, and we've got to learn to stem the inflow. We need to think before we buy. Ask ourselves, 'Is that really going to make me happier? Truly?

The dead do not squabble as this land's rulers do. The dead do not fight one another. The dead have no desires, no petty jealousies or ambitions. A world of the dead is a world at peace…

There is a Kretan proverb that says that peace is always "over there", but that is no longer true: it is within our grasp.

I always say I'd rather be miserable by myself than unhappy in a relationship.

Happiness quells thought. And work quells thought.

I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.

Painless poverty is better than embittered wealth.

We learn precisely enough to keep us from wanting to know any more

That's all I am, now. That's all that defines me. So when they're happy, they'll be me.

Do you mean, that will be enough to satisfy you – or do you intend making a conscious decision to be satisfied?" She

Do you mean, that will be enough to satisfy you – or do you intend making a conscious decision to be satisfied?