Quotes About Contentment

Do not think of tomorrow. Enjoy the now, for it is all any of us ever have.

I close my eyes and feel it running down my skin and for a while I can forget the noise in my head.

her husband had been the best sort of partner, one who understood what it meant to respect somebody and love them for who they are and not wish for them to be different, or need them to be different, that had been the key to their long and happy life together, but, also, her husband had been natively cheerful and essentially kind, and those things had helped a lot

As Michael Cunningham would later write in his novel The Hours, I thought what I was feeling was the beginning of happiness. In fact, it was happiness.

We had six years of happiness. And it was you who had to spoil it. With you, when something is right, it's never enough. You don't value happiness. You don't even realize. Because you always want more. (She

I'm happy. Which often looks like crazy.

you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy and angry all of the days of your life."9

According to the Bible, the antidote to materialism is generosity.

Christian joy isn't always laughing, always having a good, hilarious time. Christian joy is the deep, settled peace that comes to live within your heart when you know that the really important things are all right.

Blaise Pascal is reported to have said, "All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.

Instead of getting what he wanted, he got what he needed—a deeper vision of God's grace and strength in his life.

My friends, I implore you to destroy the seeds of greed inside you. Greed will not help you grow wise and rich. Greed

Don't be so sure that what you want is what you should have.

Money can't buy happiness but it can buy a huge yacht that sails right next to it.

money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to sail right up along side it.

Singing in the rain. I'm singing in the rain. And it's such a fucking glorious feeling. An unexpected downpour and I am just giving myself into it. Because what the fuck else can you do? Run for cover? Shriek and curse? No--when the rain falls you just let it fall and you grin like a madman and you dance with it because if you can make yourself happy in the rain, then you're doing pretty alright in life.

Getting what you want is just as difficult as not getting what you want. Because then you have to figure out what to do with it instead of figuring out what to do without it.

When I am with you, there is nowhere else I'd rather be. And I am a person who always wants to be somewhere else.

Ignorance is not bliss. Bliss is knowing the full meaning of what you have been given.

It was so much easier when I didn't want anything. Not getting what you want can make you cruel.

because if you can make yourself happy in the rain then you're doing pretty alright in life.

I'm not a very happy person, I told him.But sometimes I can trick myself into thinking I am.

Deep down? That sounds like settling to me. You shouldn't have to venture deep down in order to get to love.

You are happy even if you are afraid to admit it.