Quotes About Contentment

Money is not really the thing you're after—after all, would you lock yourself in a dark, silent box forever in exchange for becoming a billionaire?

Getting Away As your handling of money gets clearer and your life becomes more satisfying, you will have less of a need to "vacate." Consider

To be frugal means to have a high joy-to-stuff ratio. If you get one unit of joy for each material possession, that's frugal. But if you need ten possessions to even begin registering on the joy meter, you're missing the point of being alive.

So much dissatisfaction comes from focusing on what we don't have that the simple exercise of acknowledging and valuing what we do have can transform our outlook.

Learn to choose quality of life over standard of living.

Having more is an endless horizon, no matter how much you have.

Who Is This Book For? This program works for anyone who earns or spends money—not because anyone can be rich, but because everyone can discover for themselves how much is enough . . . and have that. It helps you transform your relationship with money—and we all have one. In fact, "enough" is the radical promise of Your Money or Your Life.

If you live for having it all, what you have is never enough. In an environment of more is better, "enough" is like the horizon—always receding. You lose the ability to identify that point of sufficiency at which you can choose to stop. This is a psychological cul-de-sac, an invisible catch-22 of the consumer myth of more. If more is better, then what I have is not enough.

how much would it take to make you happy," almost everyone, in every income bracket, said: 50 percent more than I have now. When asked to rate their happiness on a scale of 1 to 5, there was no significant difference between the top and bottom earners. You could hear a pin drop as people realized that the person in the row ahead of them probably had the "more" they thought would make them happy—and it made no difference.

If you live for having it all, what you have is never enough.

He who knows he has enough is rich.

Once we're above the survival level, the difference between prosperity and poverty lies simply in our degree of gratitude.

As you take your eyes off the false prize (of more, better, and different stuff), you put them on the real prizes: friends, family, sharing, caring, learning, meeting challenges, intimacy, rest, and being present, connected, and respected. In other words, those best things in life that are free. Like all things natural, building this wealth takes time, attention, patience, and reciprocity (that volleying of giving and receiving that builds relationships).

You'll flatten your debt and develop a natural resistance to spending more than you have for things you don't want to impress people you don't like (to paraphrase Robert Quillen).

Passion, pain, what's at hand—these are doorways to finding a purpose beyond material acquisition.

If ignorance is bliss, there should be more happy people.

That was life, wasn't it? You spend so much of it trying to find happiness, and then when you get some, you worry every day something is going to take it away.

Excitement is not enjoyment: in calmness lies true pleasure. The most precious wines are sipped, not bolted at a swallow.

To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

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How sick I am of thinking about money all the time. It's like and hideous disease destroying energy...contentment...joy... (...) It's depressing how money is always at the beginning and end of things.

Gratitude leads to a good attitude

Be happy in the day - Today is enough - Each moment is all we need in the today given and not the tomorrow to come