Quotes About Contentment

When the worldly toys in which we foolishly place our hopes for happiness are taken away from us, our foolishness is also taken away, and this brings us closer to true happiness, which is not in worldly things but in wisdom.

A certain participation in happiness can be had in this life, but perfect and true happiness cannot be had in this life.

There is little passion for anything except pleasure and comfort and security. Indeed, passion is confused with fanaticism.

he rewards our efforts with peace and joy.

Greed for the things money can buy ("natural wealth") is a bad thing, but it is finite. You can only enjoy a finite amount of food or drink, houses or cars, or even sex. But greed for money ("artificial wealth") is infinite. You can always want more. It's like a drug: you have to have higher and higher doses of it to give you the same "buzz" you used to get from little bits of it. And this never stops. It is Hell's false infinite.

However, when once perfect happiness has been attained, nothing will remain to be desired because then there will be full enjoyment of God

desire will be at rest, not only our desire for God but all our desires; so that the joy of the blessed is full to perfection—indeed, over-full, since they will obtain more than they were capable of desiring

Yet one's joy will be greater than another's on account of a fuller participation of the divine happiness

We think we want peace and silence and freedom and leisure, but deep down we know that this would be unendurable to us.

It didn't seem possible to gain so much happiness from so little.

The great stillness in these landscapes that once made me restless seeps into me day by day, and with it the unreasonable feeling that I have found what I was searching for without ever having discovered what it was.

I think I must be disappointed, having come so far, and yet I do not feel that way. I am disappointed, and also, I am not disappointed. That the snow leopard is, that it is here, that its frosty eyes watch us from the mountain—that is enough.

Of course I enjoy this life! It's wonderful! Especially when I have no choice!

The wants of the primitive are few, since he does not envy what he knows nothing of.

Of course I am happy here! It's wonderful! Especially when I have no choice!

although I seldom knew what the date was. It didn't seem important. I was turning into a contented vegetable, maintaining sporadic contact with real life through telephone conversations with people in faraway offices.

If our life has no meaning other than our own happiness, we are likely to find that when we have obtained what we think we need to be happy, happiness itself still eludes us.

Yes, he admitted to himself for the thousandth time, he did like it here. It went against his principles and his politics and probably the puritanism of his long-vanished religion too, but Sears's library – Sears's whole splendid house – was a place where a man felt at ease.

One goal of the Let It Go way of downsizing is for you to surround yourself with only a manageable number of possessions that you cherish and treasure, which trigger good emotional responses, like joy, relaxation, focus, and motivation.

The soul of success is surrendering to what is.

the only difference between you and someone you envy is you settled for less

I can only make one person happy each day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow doesn't look good, either.

If you can go home to someone who loves you, if your children are proud of you, if you can keep your integrity, you've hit the jackpot. You don't need the state to call your number. It's already been called.

There's danger in thinking joy is a matter of location. If we can't find joy where we are, we probably won't find it anywhere.