Quotes About Contentment

It's vital that you accept yourself and learn to be happy with who God made you to be. If you want to truly enjoy your life, you must be at peace with yourself.

We, at the present day, can hardly understand the keenness with which a fur coat, a good fire on the hearth, a soft bed, a glass of wine, were formerly enjoyed.

After many years of joyless life, the blind grandmother had at last found something to make her happy; her days were no longer passed in weariness and darkness, one like the other without pleasure or change, for now she had always something to which she could look forward.

are so happy, and they nod to us because they want us to be happy too. But then we must never forget to pray, and to ask God to remember us when He is arranging things, so that we too may feel safe and have no anxiety about what is going to happen.

I want to see my wife and children every day, I want to see my grass and blossoms and corn ... But above all, except the wife and children, I want to see my books.

The joyous cries he heard over the wall were all the reward he needed for a job well done and he smiled as he heard them.

Once you've lived in France, you don't want to live anywhere else, including France.

What is money, after all? Almost nothing, when one has a sufficiency of it.

Yes, this is what I thought adulthood would be, a kind of long indian summer, a state of tranquillity, of calm incuriousness, with nothing left of the barely bearable raw immediacy of childhood, all the things solved that had puzzled me when I was small, all mysteries settled, all questions answered, and the moments dripping away, unnoticed almost, drip by golden drip, toward the final, almost unnoticed, quietus.

I hadn't eaten anything at lunch, yet I wasn't hungry. The belly knows when it's not going to be fed and, like an old dog, settles down to sleep. That's how it is, I find, with the creature and its comforts, so that all is not ill, and sometimes the Lord does temper the wind to the shorn lamb.

The pleasures of acquisition are well known—says the thief, the former thief—but who ever mentions the quiet joy of letting things go?

In essence he declared, "If I have to choose between Your presence and Your blessing, I'll take Your presence—even if it's in a place of lack and hardship—over Your blessing in a great environment.

It isn't a matter of getting the body you want, it's a matter of doing the most you can with the body you have.

Focus on where you are instead of where you wish you were. The joy will follow.

Hay veces en que le envidio su juventud, pero trato de no pensar mucho en eso. Un anciano no debe tener celos de aquellos que vienen a ocupar su puesto, y recordar el tiempo en que era joven, sano y viril es un acto de masoquismo que no sirve de nada.

sometimes feel as if I wasn't supposed to live among people at all. As if I would be happier on a little island somewhere, all alone with my books and some writing material for company.

What's wrong with you people? he asked, looking at me as if I was clinically insane. What's wrong with Ireland? Are you all just fucking nuts over there, is that it? Don't you want each other to be happy? No, I said, finding my country a difficult one to explain. No, I don't think we do.

You have it. she said. And for what little it is worth, I hope that it brings you peace.

peaceful in the knowledge that a long and happy relationship negates the need for constant chatter. Zoya and I had long perfected the art of sitting silently in each other's company for hours on end, while never running out of things to say.

Accept the situation in which you find yourself and everything will be so much easier.

I sometimes feel as if I wasn't supposed to live among people at all. As if I would be happier on a little island somewhere, all alone with my books and some writing material for company. I could grow my own food and never have to speak to a soul.

the priests said that food was not there to be enjoyed but simply to keep us alive. Simplicity of diet was important.

The latter quality, being one's own locus of evaluation, means that one has a sense of satisfaction with himself.

Total self-love and acceptance is the only foundation for happiness and the love of others.