Quotes About Contentment

May today there be peace within May you trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be May you not forget the infinite possibilities that are born of faith May you use those gifts that you have received and pass on the love that has been given to you May you be content knowing that you are a child of God Let this presence settle into your bones and allow your soul the freedom to sing, dance, praise, and love It is there for each and every one of us. —Saint Teresa of Avila

If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough." —Oprah Winfrey

I definitely feel more complete than before. There's a void you have when you don't feel you've found the other part of who you are, so I'm in a different place now and that's nice to experience.

little big for her, but it would do. "This is great, Jess. I'm

she had no regrets in the way her life had turned out. She'd always believed things turned out the way they were meant to.

She makes her little house to shine, she thought.

smarter than me. But here's the thing my life did get better. I made a decision to let go of my dreams, because they were killing me, and I stopped asking the impossible of myself. I changed my attitude and decided to focus on what I had rather than what i didn't have.

Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.

Be as rich as to afford a modest, care-free existence.

He who thinks less about himself leads a comfortable life.

There comes a time when you declare truce with pains, joys, and expectations alike – a kind of statement that I need to live like trees, like grass, like stones.

Durer would have seen a reason for living in a town like this

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

One does not cease to treasure a gem simply because one owns another that is larger.

But one does not cease to treasure a gem simply because one owns another that is larger. I would have loved to place that in the jewelry box of my memory.

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night.

No one is contented in this world, I believe. There is always something left to desire, and the last thing longed for always seems the most necessary to happiness.

Cuanto más se envejece, más se siente que saber gozar del presente es un don precioso, comparable a un estado de gracia.

Not having the best situation, but seeing the best in your situation is the key to happiness.

Comparschläger: noun; a self-inflicted poison. Activates when you compare yourself to others and end up feeling worthless. Analogous to Goldschläger, the disgusting cinnamon-flavored schnapps with gold flakes that, when ingested in large quantities, makes you puke.

here's what making is-ness your business means: engage in your life with enthusiasm exactly as it is, regardless of your likes and dislikes, your preferences, ideas, beliefs, and opinions about how things should be or could be.

But one thing I've learned is that the minute I start fixating on what I don't have — time, money, a child I can send to camp for the summer, central air conditioning — I just feel that much hotter and put-upon, and those bad feelings seem to attract extra obstructions to my day.

To be content with little is difficult; to be content with much, impossible.

... security is not having things