Quotes About Contentment

Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.

Are you content? If so, you can afford to ignore the condemnation of the crowd.

Sometimes ignorance is bliss

It's painful to think about that, but what we have, I suspect, is more than most people find in a lifetime.

you will discover that true presence brings you pleasure incommensurate with events. The most banal thing—a cup of tea, a few steps, opening a door, a glance at the sky—can be enough to make you happy during the time you are present and well after.

Curiously, you will see that the more incandescent your desire, the less it will turn toward objects of desire, because it no longer needs them to mask incompletion.

by the slow and gentle emergence of objectless love, which calmly waits for us to stop pursuing the unattainable.

As is written in stanza 74 of the Vijnanabhairava Tantra: "Wherever you find satisfaction, the very essence of bliss will be revealed to you if you remain in this place without mental wavering.

We're straying from the path of salvation because we remember that we once belonged to the world and were content in that belonging.

You shouldn't have to settle for rabbits if what you want is deer.

We went wrong by failing to take into account a great truth, namely, that teals are stupid and lazy and perfectly content to stay that way.

Where do people need to go so badly they can't realise what is already here, outside the car window

Confidence, as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I loved cats. Those three things. So, even though I was an only kid, I could be happy because I knew what I loved.

I am happy with my confidence level.

You know, as I get older, personal happiness is all about love. It's all about love. You know, how I'm loved and how I love my family and my husband. That to me is happiness, when I feel like I am loved and I have a place to love deeply. That to me is happiness.

I can have everything I love at the same time. I can have my family, I can have my friends, and I can have my quiet life, which I also like. I can have my football, and I can have everything together, and I don't need to give up one to be better than what I am.

I am so proud of my family, and I am happy to give them all the limelight they want because heaven knows I got more than I need.

Rich or poor, we will keep together and be happy in one another.

"There are two tests in life, more important than any other test. On Monday morning, when you wake up, do you feel in the pit of your stomach you can't wait to go to work? And when you're ready to go home Friday afternoon, do you say, 'I can't wait to go home?'

"It's not that we spend five days looking forward to just two. It's that most people do what they enjoy most on those two days. Imagine living a life where every day is your Saturdays and Sundays. Make everyday your weekend. Make every day a play-day…"

I remember once in junior high school, on a Friday, my mom came home from work and said to my brother and I, 'You know, between us, we have only 27 cents, but we have food in the refrigerator, we have our little garden out back, and we're happy, so we are rich.'

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.

Life doesn't have to be perfect to be wonderful.

When people ask me what is more important, food or love, I don't answer because I'm eating.