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Quotes About Contentment

Of course every player wants to go from good to better, but one should not be obsessed with it.
~ Lin Dan
Going international is difficult. There are obstacles and barriers, but I couldnt, as some others do, be content with the success achieved in my country.
~ Jose Jose
Obviously, you're always happy when you can tell a story completely from beginning to end and tell it in a satisfying way, where you're able to make yourself happy and make the audience happy.
~ Aaron Stanford
I'll call it a day when I die. It's a wonderful occupation for me. I've never worked a day in my life.
~ Tony Bennett
Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.
~ John James Audubon
A vital part of the happiness formula is self-discipline. Whoever conquers himself knows deep happiness that fills the heart with joy.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
To become a happy person have a clean soul, eyes that see romance in the commonplace, a child's heart, and spiritual simplicity.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented, and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful. Such attitudes are active and definite factors in creating satisfactory conditions. Watch your manner of speech then if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine ... Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
Submit to God and be at peace with him; in this way prosperity will come to you." JOB 22:21
~ Norman Vincent Peale
Sabbath rest is not about stopping, but about exchanging our restlessness for delight.
~ Norman Wirzba
The more you want, the less you get, and the less you get, the more you have
~ Norton Juster
Tako kad nema baš ništa, uvijek imaš i više nego dovoljno. To je vrlo ekonomi?an sistem.
~ Norton Juster
Što više želiš, to manje dobivaš, a što manje dobivaš, sve više imaš.
~ Norton Juster
Why not take a few pounds of 'happys'?" advised the salesman. "They're much more practical—and very useful for Happy Birthday, Happy New Year, happy days, and happy-go-lucky.
~ Norton Juster
9. The Moon Cannot Be Stolen Ryokan, a Zen master, lived the simplest kind of life in a little hut at the foot of the mountain. One evening a thief visited the hut only to discover there was nothing in it to steal. Ryokan returned and caught him. You may have come a long way to visit me, he told the prowler, and you should not return empty-handed. Please take my clothes as a gift. Ryokan sat naked, watching the moon. Poor fellow, he mused, I wish I could give him this beautiful moon.
~ Nyogen Senzaki and Paul Reps
Well, little old Noisyville-on-the Subway is good enough for me.
~ O. Henry
You see this robe that I wear?" Bellchambers caressingly touched the straight-hanging garment: "At last I have found something that will not bag at the knees.
~ O. Henry
Be content with what thou seest; and wait until Time and Experience shall teach thee to find jealousy behind the sweet smile, and hatred under the honeyed word!' "This
~ O. Henry
Don't run down your job, Aunt Liberty; you're all right, all right.
~ O. Henry
Don't run down your job, Aunt Liberty; you're all right, all right.
~ O. Henry
And so long as I can laugh never will I be poor.
~ Og Mandino
Every one should be wealthy, if only for a day, so that each might realize that being rich is not the ideal condition that most believe it is. And like the land, we should have little need for all that silver when we cease breating. Let us enjoy the smiling faces of as many children of god as we can while we are able to see them.
~ Og Mandino