Quotes About Contentment

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Happiness is like a butterfly, the more you chase it, the more it will evade you. But if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and softly rest on your shoulder.

that was about as good as it was going to get this side of a hot tub, a good-looking man, and a chocolate milkshake.

To eat and drink, and be happy in one's toil: this is the grace of God.

That's why I ca never be happy with simple, good people", she thought. "It isn't enough to be honest and good-to be happy they must pretend. They really must!

Midlife is when you have to accept what you've created, knowing that the life you have is is the only one you'll live. And that can be terrifying, until you accept it, and then you are free of terror.

Somewhere along the line we seem to have confused comfort with happiness.

I have found my church, and it is at the end of a long trail on a distant mountainship. It is there that I feel most at peace, entirely content and whole.

We have killed our souls with comfort instead of seeking fulfillment and achievement.

No one can grant you happiness. Happiness is a choice we all have the power to make.

Envy, envy eats them alive. If you had money, they'd envy you that. But since you don't, they envy you for having such a good, bright, loving daughter. They envy you for just being a happy man. They envy you for not envying them. One of the greatest sorrows of human existence is that some people aren't happy merely to be alive but find their happiness only in the misery of others.

Funny, how one good cookie could calm the mind and even elevate a troubled soul.

In spite of where we were, how we had gotten here and why we had come, I felt that at this moment of our lives, this place was exactly where we belonged. We were not drifting but rising, rising toward something right and of significance.

Best thing that can happen to a man is a good woman.

If you're still, and if you don't hope too much, peace will come to you. It's a grace. But you have to choose happiness.

We may lack riches, but the greatest fortune is what lies in our hearts.

The joys of life can be found anywhere. Far places only offer exotic ways to suffer.

we wasn't born to be all the time scared, we was born happy

Half a century goes by in what seems like a year. Don't waste an hour in boredom, son, or wishing for tomorrow.

She never had much in this life, but with the simplest things, she made her corner of the world as beautiful as any king's palace. We may lack riches, but the greatest fortune is what lies in our hearts.

To one degree or another, I have been happy most of my life, in part because the world has infinite charms if you wish to see them. - Addison Goodheart pg. 119

I am happy to see him on the couch, his huge feet on the arm, dirtying the cloth. I am happy to hear him stomping upstairs across the floorboards and whipping towels at his sisters after he has showered. I am happy to hear him screaming for no reason, bounding down the stairs, reaching the bottom and wildly petting Nelly, shaking her head back and forth, and calling her a good girl. I think how it doesn't matter who shot my son. My son is back.

Nous, les Arabes, ne sommes pas paresseux. Nous prenons seulement le temps de vivre. Ce qui n'est pas le cas des Occidentaux. Pour eux, le temps, c'est de l'argent. Pour nous, le temps ça n'a pas de prix. Un verre de thé suffit à notre bonheur, alors qu'aucun bonheur ne leur suffit. Toute la différence est là.

Grant me immoderation, the only way to save what we can of what we're given. The hell with equity.