Quotes About Contentment

Wealth should never be your goal in life. True wealth is of the heart, not of the purse.

So long as I have something to do, someone to love, and something to hope for, I shall be happy.

For he is not poor who has little; only he that desires much Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and true security lies not in the things one has but in the things one can do without.

my son, do not aspire for wealth and labor not only to be rich. Strive instead for happiness, to be loved and to love, and most important, to acquire peace of mind and serenity.

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True wealth is of the heart, not of the purse.

To have a happy family...is to enjoy an earlier heaven.

About 90 percent of the things in our lives are right, and about 10 percent are wrong. If we want to be happy, all we have to do is to concentrate on the 90 percent that are right, and ignore the 10 percent that are wrong. If we want to be worried and bitter and have stomach ulcers, all we have to do is to concentrate on the 10 percent that are wrong and ignore the 90 percent that are glorious.

Hafid, so far as material wealth is concerned, there is only one difference between myself and the lowliest beggar outside Herod's palace. The beggar thinks only of his next meal and I think only of the meal that will be my last. No, my son, do not aspire for wealth and labor not only to be rich. Strive instead for happiness, to be loved and to love, and most important, to acquire peace of mind and serenity.

Mecbur kal?rsan?z,onurlu bir yoksulluk hayat? yaÅŸamay? öÄŸrenin,alt?nlar?n?z? mezara götürmek yerine dha önemli meselelere bak?n.

La vida es fácil si se vive un día, cada día, sin pensar en los ayeres ni afanarse por los mañanas

True wealth is of the heart, not of the purse." Hafid

No, my son, do not aspire for wealth and labor not only to be rich. Strive instead for happiness, to be loved and to love, and most important, to acquire peace of mind and serenity.

Oh and finding happiness in the small things, my dear, that's really nothing to brag about - it's the last consolation of those whose imaginations have failed them.

Olive Ann describes Sanna as 'a perfectionist and a worrier.' She is obsessed with the idea of finding happiness, and for her, as Olive ann wrote in her notes for the novel, 'happiness means being first with somebody, having perfect, loving children...The theme of Sanna is disillusionment,' Olive Ann wrote. 'Her life is the pursuit of happiness and perfection, but she finds happiness and perfection impossible to obtain-her idea of happiness is constant joy, no changes.

Two or more year ago she was out workin' in her rose garden one mornin' - did you know, boy, she's got over sixty different kinds out there? - and she said to me, said, 'Mr. Blakeslee, I wouldn't even mind dyin' if'n I could be buried in a bed of roses.

I wouldn't say I'm happy, but I look at things in a soft way. I try to convey more personal interaction, rather than huge injustices.

We have nothing to do but listen,' said Harriet, and she suddenly realized how happy she was here with Guy, come out of his seclusion to be a companion of this freedom that, having neither past nor future, was a lacuna in time; a gift of leisure that need only be accepted and enjoyed.

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is 'Thank you,' it will be enough." —Meister Eckhart

I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time.

The essential question is not, How busy are you?' but 'What are you busy at?' 'Are you doing what fulfills you?

There's a difference between thinking you deserve to be happy and knowing that you are worthy of being happy. Your being alive makes worthiness your birthright. You alone are enough.

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you conentrate on what you don't have, you'll never, ever have enough!

The happiest people don't have the best of everything, they make the best of everything.»