Quotes About Contentment

This is what I remember: (i) the little pocket of space he creates for me, (ii) how it is enough, (iii) the sound of his voice,

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

my lips never know my problem they just always smile

You'll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile." » Charlie Chaplin

Ein Tag ohne ein Lachen ist ein verlorener Tag!

You'll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile.

Guess I'll hang it up for tonight. Goodnight planet earth. God bless.

If you made it to the end of the day, then it was a good day. You didn't think any further ahead than that. The future was a mystery.

Here's the good news. If I realize that I'm insane, then I'm okay with it. I'm not dangerous insane.

I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.

I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best on earth. I hold myself supremely blest -- blest beyond what language can express; because I am my husband's life as fully as he is mine.

I would always rather be happy than dignified.

Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.

What I think is important is to appreciate every bit of happiness that comes your way, not to wait to celebrate the big happiness when it comes, but the more frequent little happinesses.

If we cease looking, searching, what are we left with? We're left with what's been right there at the center all the time. Underneath all that searching there is distress. There is unease. The minute that we realize that, we see that the point isn't the search, but rather the distress and unease which motivate the search. That's the magic moment—when we realize that searching outside of ourselves is not the way.

Joy is being willing for things to be as they are.

My dog doesn't worry about the meaning of life.

Enlightenment is not something you achieve. It is the absence of something. All your life you have been going forward after something, pursuing some goal. Enlightenment is dropping all that.

If we can accept things just the way they are, we're not going to be greatly upset by anything.

If from morning to night we just took care of one thing after another, thoroughly and completely and without accompanying thoughts, such as "I'm a good person for doing this" or "Isn't it wonderful, that I can take care of everything?," then that would be sufficient.

Joy is being the circumstances of our life just as they are.

Good is good and enough is enough, but good enough is not…

What mom cares about most is that I'm happy, healthy and enjoying my life.