Quotes About Contentment

All I want to do is sit down for ten minutes and not worry about a single, damn, thing!

We are so used to multitasking, we are so addicted to overachieving that we forget that real happiness lies in simple things that take place in the present.

Life is indeed beautiful. It's times when we sink into our hectic and stressful lifestyles that we are blinded and fail to see what we really have.

The Trio to make a meaningful life are determination, passion and satisfaction. Determination keeps on going. Passion keeps on commitment and satisfaction keeps on self fulfillment.

have learned that the source of joy is not to be found in another person and we should not look for someone

happier than they had done the previous night.

When one grows older one learns that happiness—complete and unadulterated happiness—comes only in moments, and must be recognized and savored to the full, for even in the happiest life, the complete joy is not always present.

there was more to life than being comfortable and living one day after another, quietly, unadventurously, almost like waiting for death.

Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life." Dr. Wayne Dyer

You know when you have a good relationship with someone when you are just perfectly happy to be quiet and just hang out and do nothing.

Success doesn't mean that you are healthy, success doesn't mean that you're happy, success doesn't mean that you're rested. Success really doesn't mean that you look good, or feel good, or are good.

Happiness" alone does not guarantee mental health and well-being. A tempering dose of disappointment- an occasional taste of frustration and learning that you do recover from it- goes a long way toward producing long-term contentment. Indeed the ability to ride out the bad times without feeling doomed is essential to survival. When happiness is not taken for granted, and when one is acquainted with its opposite it is more easily savored and has more lasting effects.

An element of abstention, of restraint, must enter into all finer joys.

Unlike many, I was not intent on reproducing myself, deliberately or accidentally, since one of myself was more than enough for me to handle.

He's the best thing that could have happened to us, I said. And that was no lie. It was, instead, the best kind of truth, the one that meant at least two things.

Learn to enjoy what you have or else you will never value anything that you receive

I wonder what it feels like to have no desires left because you have satisfied them all, smothered them with money even before they are born. Is an existence without desire very desirable? And is the poverty of desire better than rank poverty itself?

What would I do with all that wealth? Eventually a man just needs six feet of cloth for his shroud.

Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person's power. Just be to yourself.

The secret of life is to accept. Accept happiness, accept sorrow; accept success, accept failure; accept fame, accept disgrace; accept doubt, even accept the impression of certainty.

A happy man is one who wants what he has. An unhappy man gets what he wants but never stops wanting.

A man without happiness is neither good nor well.

A person having no sickness is happy and having no debts is rich.

A smile on your face may delay sorrow for today and tomorrow.