Quotes About Contentment

Stop hoping for the weather to change, this is where you chose to live, either accept it or move.

When life vibrates at a harmonious frequency there is no need to seek something better. It's only when the rhythm of life is disrupted that people pay attention.

The masses are not happy enough to want more out of life and not unhappy enough to reject their way of living or want a better life.

Short term goals are often based on dissatisfaction, and actions based on dissatisfaction will eventually lead to a life of unhappiness.

From things which have been obtained after having been long desired men almost never derive the pleasure and delight which they had anticipated.

Bebed té y no os desesperéis.

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

De temps à autre, il est bon de faire une pause dans notre quête du bonheur et d'être simplement heureux.

Et si nous étions tous à la poursuite de quelque chose que nous possédons déjà?

U životu, one stvari koje najviše vrede, nemaju cenu.

When he looks at me, the way he looks at me... He does not know, what I lack... Or - how - I am incomplete. He sees me, for what I - am, as I am. He's happy - to see me. Every time. Every day.

An absence of fear, Elisa realizes, can be mistaken for happiness, but it isn't the same thing. Not even close.

Today she is the richest woman in the world; she has everything she could want; she loves and is loved,

The human tendency to evaluate one's well-being by comparing it with that of another is the cause of Duryodhana's distress.

Why should one like you envy Yudhishthira? . . . Be content with what you have, stay with your own dharma—that is the way to happiness. —Dhritarashtra to Duryodhana, Mahabharata II.5.3, 61

Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.

How simple is to be happy, how difficult to be simple

Freude, die einen Anlaß braucht, ist nicht Freude, sondern Vergnügen.

One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.

Perfection is the enemy of the good.

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

I love to travel, but sometimes it's nice to stay in one place.

Happy," said Thomas. "When I grow up, I am going to be happy." Mrs. van Amersfoort was about to pull a book from the shelf, but turned in surprise. She looked at Thomas with a smile and said, "That is a damn good idea. And do you know how happiness begins? It begins with no longer being afraid.

I've decided that all women are basically miserable. The single ones are miserable because they haven't found a husband, and the married ones are miserable because they have found a husband.