Quotes About Contentment

I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content.

The happiest people in life don't necessarily have the best of everything. They just try to make the best of everything. They're like the person in a remote village going to a well every day to get water who says, "Every time I come to this well, I come away with my bucket full!" instead of, "I can't believe I have to keep coming back to this well to fill up my bucket!

And walking back from the river I remember the galling loneliness of my adolescence, from which I do not seem to have completely escaped. It is the sense of the voyeur, the lonely, lonely boy with no role in life but to peer in at the lighted windows of other people's contentment and vitality. It seems comical -- farcical -- that, having been treated so generously, I should be struck with this image of a kid in the rain walking along the road shoulders of East Milton.

I don't care whether I make money. I don't care whether I get fame. I don't care whether I leave any work behind me when I die. All I want is certain sensations!' And

Well! my best to ye both and so says Phyllis from us both. I think I enjoy life more not less now that old age has stopped all my naughty little ways!    Yours as ever       Jack the Vampire & Corpse Lover.

She felt quite friendly to her husband. He never struck her. He never abused her. He always gave her exactly the same sum of money every Saturday, whatever receipts the shop brought in. He didn't drink. He praised her cooking. But on the other hand—oh, how happy she always was when he was well out of the way and she was left alone!

Sometimes life is completely complicated, but you decide to make it simple because you accept to be beautiful and it means that your choice is to be happy.

Life never seems to be the way we want it, but we live it in the best way we can. There is no perfect life but we can fill it with perfect moments.

The best part about growing up with no money is that you know how to have fun without it.

It is better to have what you can't love than to love what you cant have.

Sometimes, the only reason why you wont let go of whats making you sad is because it was the only thing that made you happy.

Comfort is part of love. Endurance is part of love. Love's full of blissful moments. Take those and be happy.

Just remember that being alone on Valentine's Day is no different than any other day of your life.

Sometimes my heart whispers: You need him. But then I stop and take moment to notice how not tensed up I am and how stress free I am. And I think No, I DON'T need him. Sometimes I just want him.

Theres a guy out there who is going to be really happy that you didnt get back together with your ex-boyfriend.

5 Rules of Happiness: 1. Don't hate 2. Don't worry 3. Give more 4. Expect less 5. Live simply

Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame.

Refuse to worry. You won't gain anything by worrying... in fact, you lose precious moments that you can never get back. To worry only steals your peace and joy.

Don't care too much for money, because money can't buy happiness.

No expectations, no disappointments.

Care less, smile more.

The quickest route to happiness is to stop caring about finding happiness and to start being happiness.

When you settle for just anything, you won't be happy, you just learn to live with it.

I don't want to lose you, I love you as you are. I don't want to lose you, I couldn't love you more.