Quotes About Contentment

Money is great to have, but all the money in the world won't make you happy if what you do with it conflicts with your values.

There is real happiness to be gained from being able to distinguish between things that cannot be changed and things that should be changed.

Diamond Skinner had had no material possessions to his name and yet had been the happiest creature Lou had ever met. He and God would no doubt get along famously.

for once in a long time, he felt good. No worries, just possibilities. Endless possibilities.

All you need is some food, a roof over your head, a few brewskies a day, baseball in the summer and football in the fall, a missus to watch over you, and you can be a happy man.

Everyone has a different lot in life. This is yours. What they have is theirs.

Hey, it's all good.

My needs are simple, my salary more than ample.

Technically, I'm right up there, I think. But the really great artists have something—I don't think anyone can really quantify it—that I don't. But that's okay. I'm happy with

Money is just a means to an end. It shouldn't be the goal.

Money's not everything." "It is if you never had much of it.

That might not seem like much to some, but when you have nothing, anything seems like a fortune.

When you didn't have much, you tended to keep what you had.

It would be a tragedy to spend your whole life desperately wanting to be something that you already were all along.

Cause I'd rather stay here With all the madmen Than perish with the sadmen roaming free And I'd rather play here With all the madmen For I'm quite content they're all as sane As me. - All the Madmen

Where is it written that one should only care about big things? I fought for big things, long ago… for issues, principles, a country. Where are all of them now?... I found out something, you know. I discovered that the big things don't love you back. They take and take, and never give in return. They'll drain your blood, your soul, if you let them, and never let go.

It's never going to be over, so stop waiting for the good stuff. As of now, spend a minimum of one hour a day doing whatever you are waiting to do until your finances are more secure, or until the children have grown and left home, or until you have finished your obligations and you feel free to do what you really want to do.

STOP HOPING FOR A COMPLETION OF ANYTHING IN LIFE

The superior man is not seeking for fulfillment through work and woman, because he is already full. For him

Why are the people all so unhappy? he asked Mister Wolf. They have a stern and demanding God, Wolf replied. Which God is that? Garion asked. Money, Wolf said. Money's a worse God than Torak himself.

Life's much more pleasing when you don't have to spend all of your time thinking.

La vita è molto più gradevole se non si passa tutto il tempo a pensare.

Since there was absolutely nothing he could do about his circumstances, chewing on them would only leave a sour taste in his mouth.

I was always either so unreasonably and pointlessly happy that no one place could seem to contain me, or so melancholy, so sick and silly with sadness that there was no place I could stomach the thought of entering. I hated it here. And I have never been as happy as when I was here. And these two things together confront me with the beak and claws of the True.