Quotes About Contentment

They're just—happy." "About what?" She looked at the men, thinking. "Beer, sweetheart. They're happy about beer.

Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren land; long heath, broth furze, any thing.

Dogs are not our whole lives, but they make our lives whole.

All of the results you are currently experiencing in your life are absolutely perfect for you. This includes your career, personal relationships and financial status.

when you are happy doing what you love, you've already won.

Nacimos con un sistema de guía interno que nos dice cuando estamos orientados o no hacia nuestro propósito, con base en el grado de felicidad que estemos experimentando. Las cosas que nos dan mayor alegría son acordes con nuestro propósito. Para

Remuneration, promotion and perks — everything falls into place if you enjoy your work.

understand that the best gifts in life come as blessings; we do not go out looking for them.

By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry.

Why do so many ...settle for so little? I don't understand why they're not greedy for what's inside them

Alone on Christmas Eve in Japan" Not wanting to lose it all for poetry. Wanting to live the living. All this year looking on the graveyard below my apartment. Holding myself tenderly in this marred body. Wondering if the quiet I feel is that happiness wise people speak of, or the modulation that is the acquiescence to death beginning.

think the great American public would be pleased.

We've got everything we need right here, and everything we need is enough.

Can't you see that it's just raining? There ain't no need to go outside.

I don't enjoy good food. I don't enjoy flashy cars. I don't care if I live in a dump. I don't enjoy good clothes. This is the best I've dressed in months.

Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.

In this there is no judgment and no blame, for we seek not to perfect the world but to perfect our love for what is on this earth.

There is no higher happiness than peace.

Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.

The problem with the "wanting mind" is that even if you get what you think you want, it does not stop. It says, "All right, I have got the nice car, but now I need more money." It is always something that we do not have in the present moment—something that we want to obtain in order to satisfy our longing.

The Joy of Being Alive Now and then it's good to pause in your pursuit of happiness, and just be happy. —GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE

All other spiritual teachings are in vain if we cannot love. Even the most exalted states and the most exceptional spiritual accomplishments are unimportant if we cannot be happy in the most basic and ordinary ways, if, with our hearts, we cannot touch one another and the life we have been given.

The problem with desire is that you do not desire deeply enough! Why not desire it all? You don't like what you have and want what you don't have. Simply reverse this. Want what you have and don't want what you don't have. Here you will find true fulfillment.

If you let go a little you will have a little happiness. If you let go a lot you will have a lot of happiness. If you let go completely you will be free. Ajahn Chah