Quotes About Contentment

She lay there thinking, on the rich, wet graveyard grass, before the tomb of some random parishioner—Beloved Son, Husband, Father—and what she thought was this: she'd been right about almost everything. She'd gotten nearly full marks. A minus again. Blew only one question. Here's the one thing I got wrong, she thought. I thought that they could never wear me down.

I will stop being a mouse, Quentin. I will take some chances. If you will, for just one second, look at your life and see how perfect it is. Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there's nothing else. It's here, and you'd better decide to enjoy it or you're going to be miserable wherever you go, for the rest of your life, forever.

Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there's nothing else. It's here, and you'd better decide to enjoy it or you're going to be miserable wherever you go, for the rest of your life, forever." "You can't just decide to be happy." "No, you can't. But you can sure as hell decide to be miserable. Is

Maybe it's that the world is an imperfect place, but if you spend all your time looking for something better you'll only end up somewhere even worse.

If he couldn't go back, he would just have to do things differently going forward. He felt how infinitely safer and more sound this attitude was. The trick was just not wanting anything. That was power. That was courage: the courage not to love anyone or hope for anything.

and in its way too much happiness was as dangerous as too much sadness.

The trick was just not wanting anything. That was power. That was courage: the courage not to love anyone or hope for anything. The funny thing about it was how easy everything got, when nothing mattered.

I was perfectly happy where I was, deliquescing, atom by atom, amid a riot of luxury.

Quentin did not consider himself a great interpreter of signs and wonders, but the lesson of the golden key seemed pretty clear to him. It was this: you've already won the game, so quit playing. Remain where you are, in your castle, and you will be safe. No further action on your part is required.

If you will, for just one second, look at your life and see how perfect it is. Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there's nothing else. It's here, and you'd better decide to enjoy it or you're going to be miserable wherever you go, for the rest of your life, forever.

He didn't need a magic rabbit to tell him his future, he knew his future because it was already here. This was the happily ever after part. Close the book, put it down, walk away.

Note to self: Do not waste entire life being angry about stupid things.

Happiness was a real, actual, achievable possibility. It came when you called. Or no, it never left you in the first place.

Deja de buscar la siguiente puerta secreta que te lleve a tu verdadera vida, deja de esperar. Ya la tienes; no hay otra. Estás aqui, y más te vale disfrutarla o seguirás sufriendo vayas donde vayas, hagas lo que hagas el resto de tu vida, eternamente.

Ogni volta, in qualunque momento le avessero domandato a cosa pensava, poteva rispondere senza errore: a una cosa sola, alla sua felicità e alla sua infelicità.

ALRIGHT then, be a Zen monk. But you wait and see. You'll be happy and bright. You'll laugh. People will envy and ridicule you. You won't care. (sigh)

What would really satisfy us would be a God who said of anything we happened to like, "What does it matter so long as they are contented?" We want, in fact, not so much a Father in Heaven as a grandfather in heaven -- a senile benevolence who, as they say, "liked to see young people enjoying themselves" and whose plan for the universe was simply that it might be truly said at the end of each day, "a good time was had by all".

Twopence a week, and jam every other day.

Not surprisingly, physical exercise and diet are key to healthy aging; the research proves that beyond any doubt. But serving others, maintaining healthy relationships, being in nature, and having an active spiritual life—topics central to this book—are equally important. Inner and outer aging are close partners. Until we can find the inner enjoyment of which Suzuki spoke, exercise and diet alone will not suffice to make us content.

It is possible to find enjoyment in the gift of each moment and each breath, even in the midst of difficulty.

But there was a deeper lesson: Why should we see our life as broken at all? The very notion of "fixing" may itself be the problem. At the root of every discouragement is a comparison: things should be different, things could be different, and because they are

Gratitude, with no complaints, is the attitude that I would like to have, not only at the end of my life, but from now until then.

the reason we meditate is to enjoy our old age.

Taking stock of what you own, when done correctly and thoroughly, helps dampen the urge to shop frivolously.