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Quotes About Contentment

Life is a precious gift. Don't waste it being unhappy, dissatisfied, or anything else you can be.
~ Unknown
Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful.
~ Annette Funicello
The best thing you've ever done for me¦is to help me take my life less seriously¦cuz its only life after all¦
~ Indigo Girls
To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.
~ Buddha
I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
~ DH Lawrence
One great question underlies our experience, whether we think about it or not: what is the purpose of life? From the moment of birth every human being wants happiness and does not want suffering. Neither social conditioning nor education nor ideology affects this. From the very core of our being, we simply desire contentment. Therefore, it is important to discover what will bring about the greatest degree of happiness.
~ Dalai Lama
Those who dont love themselves as they are rarely love life either.
~ Rachel Naomi Remen
To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life - bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.
~ Peace Pilgrim
To be able to enjoy one's past life is to live twice.
~ Marcus Aurelius
The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.
~ Peace Pilgrim
To enjoy life, we must touch much of it lightly.
~ Voltaire
Life without absorbing occupation is hell - joy consists in forgetting life.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Enjoy Life, Give Joy, and Be at Peace!
~ Unknown
I go to sleep to dream because you are my dream. Now, that I have you, my life needs no rest.
~ Unknown
Who among us hasn't envied a cat's ability to ignore the cares of daily life and to relax completely?
~ Karen Brademeyer
It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Kiss your life. Accept it, just as it is. Today. Now. So that those moments of happiness you're waiting for don't pass you by.
~ Unknown
The most important things in life aren't things.
~ Unknown
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.
~ Denis Waitley
Self-discipline is crucial to a simpler, more contented life.
~ Tenzin Gyatso
What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.
~ Unknown
The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time.
~ James Taylor
In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
~ Tao Te Ching