Quotes About Contentment

I say that virtue is really all about enjoying yourself, living fully; but of course it is far from obvious what living fully actually means.

Perhaps the virtue of coming from a place like Tasmania is that you had the great gift of knowing that you were not the centre of things, yet life was no less where you were.

Laziness can be virtuous in the right setting, I guess.

In my opinion happiness is nothing but satisfaction - satisfaction through work, thoughts and accomplishing our mission and vision.

If don't recognize that "the perfect is the enemy of the good" yo may deprive yourself of joy

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you don't recognize that the perfect is the enemy of the good, you may deprive yourself of joy.

What's the difference between settling and compromising? When it comes to marriage, what can we live with, and what can we live without? How long does it make sense to hold out for someone better—who we may never find, and who may not exist or be available to us even if he did—when we could be happy with the person right in front of us?

Instead of wondering, Am I happy?, maximizers wonder, Is this the best I can do? They experience what Schwartz calls regret in anticipation of making a decision. As he puts it in his book, "You imagine how you'll feel if you discover that there was a better option available. And that leap of imagination may be all it takes to plunge you into a mire of uncertainty.

Maybe everything they complain about isn't actually a problem! Maybe it's fine the way it is. Maybe it's even great, like their haircut. Maybe they'd be happier if they didn't try to change things. Just be.

Wouldn't it be nice to be one of those people who doesn't overthink anything, who just goes with the flow—who lives the unexamined life?

she didn't want to just add things to her bucket list; she wanted to cross things off too. "You have to pare it down," she said, "or else it's just a useless exercise in what could have been.

As I grew older, I found I could surrender my own comfort so effortlessly it didn't qualify as sacrifice.

You think about these words final last never a lot, and there are not many things, when you come right down to it, that you'll be happy to see the end of.

Hey, if you can't get what you want, maybe you could accept what you need.

You can't please everyone, Gia. At some point you have to please yourself or your life will never be your own.

Being loved is a good thing. A grand thing. The best damned thing of all.

It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.

People sometimes imagine that without desire there would be no enjoyment. The opposite is true. When you're caught up in craving, you never really enjoy anything very much because your mind is always pulling you on to the next desire and the next after that. When you let go of desire, then you're free to enjoy whatever is right in front of you.

What you ain't never understood is that I ain't got nothing, don't own nothing, ain't never really wanted nothing that wasn't for you. There ain't nothing as precious to me...There ain't nothing worth holding on to, money, dreams, nothing else--

Sometimes having the dream makes you more content than having the reality.

Sometimes little is better than nothing at all.

One did not complain about having in abundance that which others wished desperately to obtain.

I knew what I possessed was exactly what I wanted, that I desired no more than what I had.