Quotes About Contentment

Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame -- to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a hell.

If aught be worse than failure from overstress of a life's prime purpose, it is to sit down content with a little success.

As long as we try to fill this yearning with things other than God and activities other than God's purposes, we are unfulfilled and incomplete.

Remember, you can be exalted without a college degree. You can be exalted without being slender and beautiful. You can be exalted without having a successful career. You can be exalted if you are not rich and famous. So focus the best that you can on those things in life that will lead you back to the presence of God - keeping all things in their proper balance.

Honey, we may not have much money or the other things that some people think are so important. But I have a feeling that of the four men on that plane, I was the happiest and, in a way, the richest. I have blessings that money simply cannot buy. And I have the satisfaction of knowing that the things that are most important to me—you, our family, and my love of God—can endure forever.

much of life requires waiting and we have a choice to do it happily or miserably.

Happiness comes not only from moment-to-moment enjoyment of life, but also from the sense of satisfaction and flow that arises when we are using our capacities to their fullest.

If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never truly be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself. Be content with what you have; rejoice in that way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

was like I kept buying these things to be cool, but cool was always flying just ahead of me, and I could never exactly catch up to it.

and we smoke their sorrow contentedly; and we eat their sorrow; and we wear their sorrow; and wonder how it came so cheap. It

You are not happy when you feel happy, you are happy when you are happy.

7. Kill out the hunger for growth.

Desire only that which is within you.

Set yourself free. Realize you already have everything you need and don't need anything else.

Remember, the security and happiness you are seeking is not in your material possessions, your degrees, or relationships. It is much closer than you think.

I almost did not come, because I did not want to leave it." He smiled. "Now I know how to make you follow me everywhere." The sun sank below Pelion's ridges, and we were happy.

Name one hero who was happy. You can't.

I had known contentment before, brief snatches of time in which I pursued solitary pleasure: skipping stones or dicing or dreaming. But in truth, it had been less a presence than an absence, a laying aside of dread:

My fears forgotten in the golden harbour of his arms.

There is no one like you," I said, at last. He regarded me a moment, in silence. "So?" Something in the way he spoke it drained the last of my anger from me. I had minded, once. But who was I now, to begrudge such a thing? As if he heard me, he smiled, and his face was like the sun.

In my chair by the hearth, I lifted my cup. "Sometimes," I told him, "you must be content with ignorance." He did not like that answer, yet that was the perversity of him: in a way he liked it best of all. I had seen how he could shuck truths from men like oyster shells, how he could pry into a breast with a glance and a well-timed word. So little of the world did not yield to his sounding. In the end, I think the fact that I did not was his favorite thing about me.

He had never been hungry for glory, only for life.

He talked so often of longing for us and home. But it was lies. When he was back on Ithaca he was never content, always looking to the horizon. Once we were his again, he wanted something else.

Imagine such a happiness. Like drinking wine your whole life, instead of water.