Quotes About Contentment

My dog is usually pleased with what I do, because she is not infected with the concept of what I "should" be doing.

Hombres de mucha importancia te pretenden. + Ya te digo que ninguno es para mí. - Pues, ¿has de vivir ansí? + ¿Tan mal estaré conmigo?

With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy

My main priority now is that my kids are happy; that's my number-one focus in life. Are these little people happy, content, and getting everything they need? Everything after that is secondary. Before, my work was my main priority -- even above myself.

You get to a point in life where it suddenly occurs to you that you don't need all the things you once thought you did--that it's really, well, convoluted. My life feels overblown sometimes, and I don't want it to be. I want it to be streamlined. So I'm living a much more unscripted life now than I have in a long time.

We prefer to avoid men, and to shun the world, in order that we may seek in retirement, the only peace that is possessing, the only happiness which is left us to enjoy.

This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.

Happiness was born a twin.

I will not ask where thou liest low, Nor gaze upon the spot; There flowers or weeds at will may grow, So I behold them not

Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you to miserable in comfort.

The creature comforts were all a man cared about at the finish.

Mom. Wife. Filmmaker. Dog lover. Happy. What else is there?

People misunderstand power. Real power is being at peace with oneself and living in the moment—not being affected by the currents and actions of others.

He took a deep, long swig and closed his eyes.

You are beautiful. You are strong. You are enough. You don't need to be anything more. Or less.

A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.

Why leave the nut you got for one you don't know?

To a kid who asked for a second cookie: "You already have one cookie you're eating. Why do you need another?" "I want to be ready for when this one is gone.

Man, Duke and I work our fannies off. We don't eat expensive dinners out. We don't go to the mvies or buy our clothes anywhere but Kmart--our biggest treat is taking the kids to Walmart on Friday nights, having a fast food hamburger and doing the grocery shopping.

we won't borrow trouble—not when we have enough to see us through the day.

If the queen had balls, she'd be the king." If you go through life picking and choosing, if you don't recognize that "the perfect is the enemy of the good," you may deprive yourself of joy.

If the queen had balls, she'd be the king." If you go through life picking and choosing, if you don't recognize that "the perfect is the enemy of the good," you may deprive yourself of joy. At first patients are taken aback by my bluntness,

Which all boils down to: Happiness equals reality minus expectations.

He wasn't doing anything fancy; he just seemed wholly at home in his skin.