Quotes About Contentment

Once you have enough for beans and rice and taking care of your family and a few other things, money is a story. You can tell yourself any story you want about money, and it's better to tell yourself a story about money that you can happily live with.

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.

a tolerable and comfortable existence doing something unfulfilling.

I had to get back to this place where you just want water, food, and shelter. All the craziness of my life—this Wall Street life I had taken on—would go away, would melt away.

case—a tolerable and comfortable existence doing something unfulfilling. The last is most common and most insidious.

The Conquest of Happiness

porque cuando te sientes agradecido, todos sabemos que no hay ira.

Bliss is the highest peak of what brings you joy.

La vida es demasiado corta para tenerla ocupada.

Naucz si? pyta?: "Je?li jest to jedyna rzecz, jak? mog? dzi? wykona?, to czy b?d? zadowolony z dzisiejszego dnia?".

5—You can't reason someone out of something they didn't reason themselves into. #6—"Trying to get everyone to like you is a sign of mediocrity. You'll avoid the tough decisions, and you'll avoid confronting the people who need to be confronted."—Colin Powell #7—"If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid."—Epictetus Cato

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

The key to a great life is simply having a bunch of great days. So you can think about it one day at a time." Mr. Money Mustache

The struggle ends when the gratitude begins." [Quote attributed to Neale Donald Walsch]

The opposite of love is indifference, and the opposite of happiness is—here's the clincher—boredom.

Life is too short to be busy.

We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace."–Chuck Palahniuk Famed American author, best known for Fight Club

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone." –Henry David Thoreau American essayist and philosopher, author of Walden "What gets measured gets managed." –Peter Drucker Considered "the founder of modern management," author of The Effective Executive "Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike." –Oscar Wilde Irish writer, author of The Picture of Dorian Gray

There is more to life than increasing its speed. —MOHANDAS GANDHI

La felicidad es querer lo que ya tienes.»

There is more freedom to be gained from practicing poverty than chasing wealth. Suffer a little regularly and you often cease to suffer.

Quienes tenemos la suerte de vivir en un mundo en el que tenemos lo suficiente y tenemos un techo y tenemos alimento, nos vemos atrapados en ese bucle de recordar los detalles equivocados.

No hay camino hacia la felicidad, la felicidad es el camino.

What is the ultimate quantification of success? For me, it's not how much time you spend doing what you love. It's how little time you spend doing what you hate. And this woman spent all day, every day doing what she loved." Spirit animal: Rhino Morgan Spurlock Morgan Spurlock (TW: @MorganSpurlock, morganspurlock.com) is an Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker based in New York.