Quotes About Contentment

God grant you your quota of smiles.

Don't expect too much from life, Buttercup told herself as she rode along. Learn to be satisfied with what you have.

But this is life on earth, you can't have everything.

La existencia era realmente muy sencilla cuando uno obedecía órdenes. No había nada mejor ni más fácil que lo que le aguardaba.

He was actually quite happy, because it was only when he was requested to use his might that he felt he wasn't a bother to everybody.

Love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops.

And Inigo felt, for the first time since the dying, such happiness. It had fled from him, happiness, and when you spend years without, you forget that no blessing compares . . .

Don't expect too much from life, Buttercup told herself as she rode along. Learn to be satisfied with what you have.

Most of us long for balance in our lives, equilibrium and serene contentment. But that was the way of the Buddha, not Jesus. Jesus blessed those who thirsted after God like a thirsty animal.

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure much.

Which would you rather have, O King—that little golden statue, or a little girl who could run, and laugh, and love you?" "Oh, give me back my little Marygold and I'll give up all the gold I have!" said the king. "I've lost all that was worth having.

Then Croesus was angry. "Why is it," he asked, "that you make me of no account and think that my wealth and power are nothing? Why is it that you place these poor working people above the richest king in the world?" "O king," said Solon, "no man can say whether you are happy or not until you die. For no man knows what misfortunes may overtake you, or what misery may be yours in place of all this splendor.

This is what I think about it: My old man and I lived for fifty years seeking happiness and not finding it; and it is only now, these last two years, since we had nothing left and have lived as laborers, that we have found real happiness, and we wish for nothing better than our present lot.

Although his deafness required shouted conversation or written questions and answers, reporters enjoyed interviewing him for his pithy, penetrating comments. Once, asked what advice he had for youth, he replied, "Youth doesn't take advice." He never accepted happiness or contentment as worthwhile goals. "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man," he said, "and I will show you a failure.

You have never seen ugliness in a happy face.

Man can never have enough without having too much.

Lectures IV and V - The Religion Of Healthy Mindedness If we were to ask the question: What is human life's chief concern? one of the answers we should receive would be: It is happiness. How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness, is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

If the generations of mankind suffered and laid down their lives; if martyrs sang in the fire... for no other end than that a race of creatures of such unexampled insipidity should succeed, and protract... their contented and inoffensive lives, why, at such a rate... better ring down the curtain before the last act of the play, so that a business that began so importantly may be saved from so singularly flat a winding up.

And what is happiness, Nathan? In my experience, it's only a moment's pause here and there on what is otherwise a long and difficult road. No one can be happy all the time.

If you're doing the best you can, that's good enough.

The good news of the gospel is that who we are is okay. Our best is good enough. The Savior came for us--just as we are.

Do not anxiously expect what is not yet come; do not vainly regret what is already past.

Unsullied poverty is always happy, while impure wealth brings with it many sorrows.

If you want to be happy for an hour, get drunk; If you want to be happy for three days, get married; If you want to be happy forever, make a garden.