Quotes About Contentment

You're mistaken, Father. You were in paradise, but you didn't recognize it. It's the same with most people in this world; they seek suffering in the most joyous of places because they think they are unworthy of happiness.

What is success? It is being able to go to bed each night with your soul at peace

Today don't beg, don't ask, just thank God in silence for all the blessings in your life.

That the truest experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.

She was neither happy nor unhappy, and that was why she couldn't go on.

What is success? poses the Copt. It is being able to go to bed each night with your soul at peace.

Quando se ama não é preciso entender o que se passa lá fora, pois tudo passa a acontecer dentro de nós

Sometimes it's better to leave things as they are, he thought to himself, and decided to say nothing.

Blessed are those who do not fear solitude, who are not afraid of their own company, who are not always desperately looking for something to do, something to amuse themselves with, something to judge. If you are never alone, you cannot know yourself.

I will be able to love above all discontentment. To give even when I am stripped of everything. To dry tears even when I am still crying. To believe even when I am discredited.

Love is what makes you smile when you're tired.

I've never been as happy as I am now, because I followed the signs, I was patient, and I know that this is going to change everything.

sometimes it's better to leave things as they are.

It's the simple things in life that are the most extaordinary;

Buddhists say that a fixed smile, however false, lights up the soul.

Over-anxiety ultimately banishes every trace of joy from life.

If you have a work instead of a job, every day is holiday

The worst killing is that which kills the joy we get from life.

Joy is like sex – it begins and ends. I want pleasure. I want to be contended, but happiness? I no longer fall into that trap.

I will at least have gained one very happy day in my life. Considering the way the world is, one happy day is almost a miracle.

I savour the idea of my new state: single and a millionaire.

La felicidad es una bendición, pero generalmente es también una conquista.

it is one thing to get used to something, another to be satisfied.

You can't want to be happy, because that's too easy and too boring.