Quotes About Contentment

Our days are so few, our existences so complicated. As long as we're breathing we shouldn't further complicate our lives.

All I've got to do today is smile.

She said a good day ain't got no rain She said a bad day is when I lie in the bed And I think of things that might have been

How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.

An aimless joy is a pure joy," I said, quoting Yeats.

In travel, as in many other experiences in life, once is usually enough.

Here's the secret," he said. "I don't want more than I have—therefore I have everything. It's the economy of enough.

One of my luckiest instincts lay in being able to tell when I was happy—at the time, not afterwards. Most people don't realize until long afterwards that they have passed through a period of happiness. Their enjoyment takes the form of reminiscence, and it is always tinged with regret that they had not known at the time how happy they were. But I knew, and my memory (of bad times too) was detailed and intense.

She had nothing more to give than what he already possessed. At least so she thought. He

Que no era libre? Ah, gracias a Dios, no lo era. Pero se sentía ligera, una diosa sobre las nubes, un pez en el agua, colmada de felicidad.

Was that all my love was, all it meant? So light, so easily gone and forgotten? Is solace that simple? And solace is not even the right word: I'm happy.

And yet never had she felt herself more totally committed to a will which was not her own, more totally a slave, and more content to be so. When

No one should ever ask themselves that: why am I unhappy? The question carries within it the virus that will destroy everything. If we ask that question, it means we want to find out what makes us happy. If what makes us happy is different from what we have now, then we must either change once and for all or stay as we are, feeling even more unhappy.

It is said that all people who are happy have God within them.

People are never satisfied. If they have a little, they want more. If they have a lot, they want still more. Once they have more, they wish they could be happy with little, but are incapable of making the slightest effort in that direction.

I'm alive. When I'm eating that's all I think about. If I'm on the march, I just concentrate on marching. If I have to fight,it will be just as good a day as any to die. If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man. Life is the moment we are living now.

No one owns anything. Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realize that nothing really belongs to them. And if nothing belongs to me, then there's no point wasting my time looking after things that aren't mine.

They say that extroverts are unhappier than introverts and have to compensate for this by constantly proving to themselves how happy and contented and at ease with life they are.

The happier people can be, the unhappier they are.

The true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.

Suffering comes from desire, not from pain.

simple things are the most valuable and only wise people appreciate them.

I was trying to come round to the idea that there might be an invisible reality capable of interfering in our lives, but the only reason I did so was because of a love I didn't want to believe I felt but which was continuing to grow in a subtle, devastating way. I was content in my universe and didn't want to change it at all, even though I was being propelled in that direction.

I don't want to change anything, because I don't know how to deal with change.