Quotes About Contentment

Joy is a choice. Happiness is an emotion. You can still be joyful and be unhappy. When you are content with your life's purpose, nothing can steal your joy.

The worst kind of shame is being ashamed of frugality or poverty.

A contented mind is the best source for trouble.

Ho trovato donna della mia vita! - Bene, adesso ti basta trovare una vita e sei a posto.

Mi piace essere in un corpo che ormai invecchia. Posso guardare le montagne senza il desiderio di scalarle. Quand'ero giovane le avrei volute conquistare. Ora posso lasciarmi conquistare da loro. Le montagne, come il mare, ricordano una misura di grandezza dalla quale l'uomo si sente ispirato, sollevato. Quella stessa grandezza è anche in ognuno di noi, ma lì ci è difficile riconoscerla. Per questo siamo attratti dalle montagne.

Folco, diese Welt ist ein Wunder! Sie ist ein unglaubliches Wunder! Und wenn du es schaffst, dich als Teil dieses Wunders zu fühlen - nicht das Du mit den zwei Augen und den zwei Füssen, sonderd das DU, Dein innerstes Wesen - was kannst Du dann noch wollen? Hm? Was kannst Du dann noch wollen? Ein neues Auto?

Don't go chasin' waterfalls. Please stick to the rivers and the lakes that you're used to.

A happiness that comes attached to an if or something else is sadness in disguise, choose to be happy and you will be happy whether poor or rich, small or big.

Most people live sad lives because they have they have succeeded in designing and perfecting a path to sorrow thinking they are building a road to happiness. I will be happy if I befriend or even marry this rich fool, if I buy this worthless tool, if I sit on this corrupted stool, if I drown and kill myself in a debt pool, if I wear this dirty wool, if I ride on this dangerous bull.

It's the hunger; the hunger for an alternative and the refusal to accept a life of unhappiness...

You're gonna turn me into one of those fat, useless, contented cats," Binx said.

Sou como uma pessoa faminta a quem deram de comer" "I am like a starveling person who was given some food" Anna Karénina

I have lived through much and now I think I have found what is needed for happiness. A quiet, secluded life in the country with possibility of being useful to people.

Barry Schwartz's distinction between maximizers and satisficers has given us the counterintuitive insight that restricting our choices in life can actually lead to greater happiness and satisfaction, and

reason for giving up an itinerant life

Quite simply, I did not want to spend much time away from my cats.

It never occurred to me that I could live in California. Now I can't imagine living anywhere else.

It didn't matter if we didn't have new bikes and skateboards and a nice car, and a lot of food in the fridge. We were in the ocean just enjoying life to the fullest.

All I want to know is that I can keep this house for the rest of my days and I want to make good music... and have the odd sports car in the garage, obviously!

At the time, nobody knew what it was. It had no name. When everything else is out of your control, you can control your eating. You end up cutting a lot of things off. Nothing reaches you. I was very happy then - that was the oddity.

The world has a great deal more to offer than money.

There are lots of offers that I am getting. I can't complain.

I've had offers that could've made me much richer and much more famous than I am.

Success has nothing to do with box office as far as I'm concerned. Success has to do with achieving your goals, your internal goals, and growing as a person. It would have been nice to have been connected with a couple more box office hits, but in the long run, I don't think it makes you happier.