Quotes About Contentment

Life is easy when you're a hamster," I said to Ranger.

Life should always be like this. ... Like lingering over a good meal.

It's not that he was going nowhere, it's that he'd already arrived.

But all the if onlys in the world could not change the events of that day, and he had accepted that long ago.

Part of learning to count my blessings is accepting that many of them I would not have chosen if

But I refused to mope about for the evening. My little ritual with teacup, familiar chair, and a favorite Dickens story went a long way toward improving my outlook.

He answers my prayers." "Ya mean by givin' ya whatever ya ask fer?" Clark thought a minute, then shook his head. "No, not thet. Oft times He jest helps me to git by without what I asked fer.

You know I'm never happy. I'm not happy, unless I'm miserable.

Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.

Our people work more, earn more, spend more. Here they work less, gain less, and spend less, but they are happy! That's what I think. Also, I haven't seen people here drink much, unlike Kerala, where it's almost like bread and coffee for them!

It's funny because unlike back in the seventies when I made hardly any money, today I could just live off the past if I wanted to. I have no interest in that.

This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

In the unlikely event that I make it into heaven, I won't be able to enjoy everlasting bliss because part of the pleasure of happiness is its transience.

Most disciplines invite us to more mindfulness, and more contentment. Not by consuming more externally, but by harvesting more from within, and by sharing more without. Neurosciences and behavioural sciences increasingly corroborate this ancient wisdom - joy can come from giving, and unlimited happiness from bonhomie.

People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.

I'm one of those unlucky people who had a happy childhood.

An unmarried man, in my opinion, enjoys only half a life.

I live in my house as I live inside my skin: I know more beautiful, more ample, more sturdy and more picturesque skins: but it would seem to me unnatural to exchange them for mine.

Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.

I have not thrown my money away on unnecessary things in my life, so I'm okay.

I know I've been lucky, but I'm not very materialistic - I don't believe in collecting many unnecessary things and I'm not into girlie shopping.

I think there are things that you look for when you're younger, and you think they are going to make you happier or make you feel complete. That's not going to happen, and it's really about living the moments. Eventually, you reach a point when you're at ease with your life and don't have any unrealistic expectations.

A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect it.

Also, in a funny way, if you have been happily married there are no unresolved areas, nothing to prove to yourself after the other dies.