Quotes About Contentment

Some things can't be ravished. You can't ravish a tin of sardines. And so many women are like that: and men. But the earth...!

Those who go searching for love only find their own lovelessness. But the loveless never find love; only the loving find love, and they never have to search for it.

So long as you don't feel life's paltry, and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.

She could not be content with the little he might be, she would have him the much that he ought to be. So, in seeking to make him nobler than he could be, she destroyed him.

Whether it turned into wine or whether it didn't, he said, it doesn't bother me. I take it for what it is. And what is it? she asked, quickly, hopefully. It's the Bible, he said. That answer enraged her, and she despised him.

The ancients thought it shameful to seek advancement or want to be the head of something, or the chief or senior.

We drank a cup of tea and ate a little umeboshi cake. I still remember the nice taste of that little cake in the shape of the sour umeboshi plum. Nothing special happened—we just sat there, eating that cake—but I felt really comfortable. That memory is very clear for me. Spending the day with my mother, just being present with her. No disturbance, no brothers there, just my mother and I, just living.

One of the tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

You'll never achieve real success unless you like what you're doing.

We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today

The words Think and Thank are inscribed in many of the Cromwellian churches of England. These words ought to be inscribed in our hearts, too: Think and Thank. Think of all we have to be grateful for, and thank God for all our boons and bounties.

Nobody is so miserable as he who longs to be somebody and something other than the person he is in body and mind.

Happiness does not depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude

There is only one way to happiness," Epictetus taught the Romans, "and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world—and loses his health?

Schopenhauer said: We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack.

I wasn't interested in making a lot of money, but I was interested in making a lot of living.

We already know enough to lead perfect lives.

Think and Thank." Think of all we have to be grateful for, and thank God for all our boons and bounties.

Count your blessings—not your troubles!

Il est certain que le plus sûr moyen de connaître le bonheur serait de contrôler nos pensées. La félicité ne dépend pas des conditions extérieures, elle est régie par notre attitude mentale.

George Bernard Shaw was right. He summed it all up when he said: "The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.

Happiness doesn't depend on outward conditions. It depends on inner conditions. It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.