Quotes About Contentment

Start praying like this and you'll see. Not "some way to sleep with her" - but a way to stop wanting to. Not "some way to get rid of him" - but a way to stop trying. Not "some way to save my child" - but a way to lose fear. Redirect your prayers like that, and watch what happens.

The present is the only thing of which a man can be deprived, if it is true that this is the only thing which he has, and that a man cannot lose something he does not already possess.

Love the little trade which you have learned, and be content with it.

Be content with what you are, and wish not change nor dread your last day, nor long for it.

"Let your occupations be few," says the sage,"if you would lead a tranquil life."

Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith.

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

People don't want the truth, not really. They want safe lives and nice electronics and full fridges.

Even Christ hadn't been able to sell salvation to contented sinners.

It is enough to know that not to know is enough. It is enough not to know.

What is more agreeable than one's home?

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

There is no way to be completely happy without being oblivious to the world around you.

The minimalist life. Pleasure is an egg. Blessings that can be counted, on the fingers of one hand.

It is only possible to live happily ever after on a daily basis.

It is only possible to live happily-ever-after on a day-to-day basis.

She is one of those people who have found serenity because they have never tried to dodge suffering.

The reason thereof is, said the Duchess, that they have too little Gold and Riches, which makes them so eager to have it. No, replied the Empress's Soul, their particular Covetousness, is beyond all the wealth of the richest World, and the more Riches they have, the more Covetous they are; for their Covetousness is Infinite.

It is his vegetable ambition never to stir.

Create your own permission slip for joy. Write three words: Accept. Adapt. Depend. Carry this permission slip with you. Tell your friends you're working on becoming more content, more joyful. Take a nap. Live with a messy house for a time. Order takeout. File an extension on your taxes. Stare out the window. Linger in the company of a friend. Breathe in the fullness of life. Use those words to fight back with joy.

I had a desire to see something besides my own shores, if only to be content to return to them someday. If I wish to live in my native land and love her, it should not be out of ignorance.

Bless me or not, Lord, just as You please, for I'll not beg.

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.