Quotes About Contentment

The really happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery when on a detour.

These two truths are the same in weight and importance. Accept and love WHO and WHERE you are now, and all good things shall find you there.

You only live once, but if you live right, once is enough.

We are men without ambition, and all we want is to be left alone, in peace so that we can try and be happy. So few people will understand this simplicity.

Spiritual growth yields lasting joy, peace which passes all understanding.

The world was hard and fierce, but it also contained tomato sandwiches, and if that didn't make it a world worth living in, your standards were unreasonably high.

No it ain't nothing left to say. —Oddisee, "Tomorrow Today

The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.

sometime when your life is so good, you'll want to make your happiness as simple as possible.

Let others do as they wished, but she would live the life she began and would not run from corner to corner in a frenzy. She would wait for her own happiness, not someone else's.

Life was not a piece of clothing that could be changed ten times. What there is, is all yours, and it's wrong to refuse any of it, even the very worst.

Everything that happens is for the best, so that life is happier and more interesting. Just live without looking around or thinking.

Take everything that's yours with you, don't save any -- it won't be needed later.

I might have wanted another destiny for myself, but others have theirs, and I have mine. And I'm not sorry about it. It's mine.

Hunger, when there is something to cure it with, is easy to cure.

We long for a life we never had but of which we seem to have a clear memory; a life in wich there is no longing.

Live each day and close your eyes each night with the knowledge that you've spent the hours well. That's all any of us can do.

deeper joy comes from peace and love and knowing you are living the life you were meant to live. You

You see, happiness cannot be the sole aim of your existense. Happiness is a by-product of a life well lived.

When it's not always raining there'll be days like this. When there's no one complaining there'll be days like this. When everything falls into place like the flick of a switch. Well my mama told me there'll be days like this.

Spiritual hunger and spiritual thirst But you got to change it On the inside first To be satisfied

desire is the source of all sorrows, and desirelessness leads to the most intense delight.

Worry is like a rocking chair. It will give you something to do, but it won't get you anywhere.

I don't have the recipe for happiness, but I think the engine is simply having the desire.