Quotes About Contentment

You know what an okay job is, don't you? It's a job you only hate some of the time instead of all of the time.

As much as I hated my mockery of a life, it was the only mockery I had, and I didn't particularly want to lose it. There

I was in my thirties before I learnt that I too would prefer not to see what I could no longer have

Hazel missed trees. She wanted just one sturdy elm with a branch strong enough to hold a swing. And she didn't want to live in a hole in the ground, with the snakes and tarantulas, and sleeping so near to the stink of burning cow manure.

Here in the corner attic of America, two hours' drive from a rain forest, a desert, a foreign country, an empty island, a hidden fjord, a raging river, a glacier, and a volcano is a place where the inhabitants sense they can do no better, nor do they want to.

If you let pride stop you, you will hate life

If this is the only thing I accomplish today, will I be satisfied with my day?

You always have three options. You can change it, you can accept it, or you can leave it. What is not a good option is to sit around wishing you would change it but not changing it, wishing you would leave it but not leaving it, and not accepting it. It's that struggle, that aversion, that is responsible for most of our misery. The phrase that I probably use the most to myself in my head is just one word: accept.

Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace. —ROBERT J. SAWYER, Calculating God

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued. —Socrates

The struggle ends when the gratitude begins.

If you don't believe in an afterlife, then you [should realize] that this is such a short and precious life, it is really important that you don't spend it being unhappy. There is no excuse for spending most of your life in misery. You've only got 70 years out of the 50 billion or however long the universe is going to be around.

Sometimes, you think you have to figure out your life's purpose, but you really just need some macadamia nuts and a cold fucking shower.

Too much, too many, and too often of what you want becomes what you don't want.

Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: "Is this the condition that I feared?" —SENECA

Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with coarse and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: 'Is this the condition that I feared?'" —Seneca

NO HAS ENCONTRADO TU OBJETIVO GENERAL, ÚNICO EN LA VIDA? TAL VEZ NO SEA NECESARIO «Olvídate de tener un propósito. Está bien ser feliz sin tenerlo. La persecución de un propósito único ha arruinado muchas vidas.»

Relative Income Is More Important Than Absolute Income.

If you don't appreciate what you have now, you'll never appreciate what you get later.

To do what you desire to do, you have all you need.

Happiness, or at least peace, is the sense that nothing is missing in this moment. No desires running amok. It's okay to have a desire. But pick a big one and pick it carefully. Drop the small ones.

There is no way to happiness—happiness is the way." –THICH NHAT HANH Vietnamese Buddhist monk and Nobel

Happiness, or at least peace, is the sense that nothing is missing in this moment.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone." –Henry David Thoreau