Quotes About Contentment

They tell me that you'll lose you mind when you grow older. What they don't say is that you won't miss it very much.

When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

To live long and achieve happiness, cultivate the art of radiating happiness.

It's not how much money we make that ultimately makes us happy between nine and five. It's whether or not our work fulfills us. Being a teacher is meaningful.

One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.

History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.

I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

She stays lost in the middle of her own world somewhere. We can't get in and she doesn't come out. Not often anyway, and certainly not for any length of time. But her mind takes her to somewhere kind, I think, to judge by the peaceful, serene look on her face most of the time.

And... well, she had done it. Just as she said she would. She felt nothing - which was good - no, which was great . You could get anything you wanted in this world if you didn't feel. It was just a shame that she couldn't feel happy about it. She would've settled for feeling satisfaction at what she'd done, but feeling nothing at all was better than feeling bad. If that was all there was, then that was all she wanted or needed

Wünsche, an die wir uns zu sehr klammern, rauben uns leicht etwas von dem, was wir sein sollen und können. Wünsche, die wir um der gegenwärtigen Aufgabe willen immer wieder überwinden, machen uns – umgekehrt – reicher.

Man soll Gott in dem finden und lieben, was er uns gerade gibt.

All that money can buy you is a certain amount of time or leisure with which to do the things you want to do.

I never wanted to be the most famous, the most beautiful, the most extravagant.

It's already a good thing to have done a job you did enjoy at one point. That's pretty rare.

Oi que series capaç de qualsevol cosa per conservar la teva tranquil·litat? Oi que ho sacrifiques tot, absolutament tot, a la teva manera de viure sense maldecaps, sense ideals?

Capture what's given to you but strive for what is not.

The nicest thing about feeling happy is that you think you'll never be unhappy again.

And the good thing about feeling happy, you know, Valentin? ...It's that you think it's forever, that one's never ever going to feel unhappy again.

Este sueño es corto, pero es feliz

No mi Valentín querido, eso no sucederá, porque este sueño es corto pero es feliz

Puede que la verdadera felicidad esté en la convicción de que se ha perdido irremediablemente la felicidad. Entonces empezamos a movernos por la vida sin esperanzas ni miedos, capaces de gozar por fin todos los pequeños goces, que son los más perdurables.

Sanity is a small price to pay for happiness.

joy isn't found in the material objects surrounding us but in the inner recesses of the soul.

St. Teresa of Ávila writes: "The devil gives us great desires so that we will avoid setting ourselves to the task at hand, serving our Lord in possible things, and instead be content with having desired the impossible.