Quotes About Contentment

You know when something feels so good but you're afraid to feel good about it? So you kinda hold back? Everyone says, Congratulations, you must be so happy. And you say something stupid like, I'm just doing what little I can with what little I have.

I want to figure out a way to not be stupid with money, then make a whole bunch of it, then I want to move to Outer Mongolia. I want to milk a yak. Maybe I'll just settle for a cow. Can you milk a bison?

I'll always just be stupid boy, and I'm happy with that.

This new thing about liking yourself, I find that absolutely appalling. Anyone who likes themselves, I just can't go too close to them. To me it's pure stupidity. But having some peace with yourself, that's quite a relief.

I've been at the very bottom of poverty, and it's not so bad. It's even kind of interesting. You can live there with a certain amount of style.

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

When you're working and making money, that's all good, but there has to be something that provides a substance, I think.

I have managed to eke out a good and substantial existence. I'm not shoveling gold bricks or anything, but I do very, very well.

Joy is a subtle elf; I think one's happiest when he forgets himself.

A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.

I'm finally a suburban housewife. Honestly, it's my dream come true.

If you want a good life, don't succeed at anything too early or too well. And don't choose a profession that attracts money or attention. The minute people want to see you doing what you do, you're finished.

I have been obscenely lucky. I've got most of the things I've asked for and done well at the things I've wanted to succeed at.

I believe happiness is a chemical imbalance - it's a silly thing to strife for. But satisfaction - if you seek satisfaction, you can succeed. Satisfaction is knowing that you're doing the best that you can do; you're living your life to the fullest.

The great adventures of life, the surprise of strangers, of strangeness, of the electric and eclectic moments of happenstance, and also of extreme ambition, are slowly being removed by code as a path to a new contentment. We are using the acceleration of information transmission to decelerate changes in our physical world.

Once you're truly happy with yourself alone, that's when you are safe to find the right person to spend the rest of your life with.

I'm just enjoying my life.I suggest you try it.

Being alone doesn't necessarily mean that you're lonely.

The grass may be greener on the other side but the the water bill is higher.

Never argue with what is.

Never wish to be somebody else.

Live where you are so God can meet you at your needs.

As long as you are not at peace with yourself, it is not possible for you to be at peace with others.

There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely.