Quotes About Contentment

If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.

A woman does not need to live among many people to be content. She needs but one true companion, one soul mate with whom to share this long journey we call life.

Oh, if only I were young again, I would travel! There's so much of the world I would like to have seen. But I'm too old for that now and too ill to manage the trip. I don't care much for clothes. I'm giving away all my jewelry. At this point in my life, I see all possessions as just more stuff, , as Cara called it. Meaningless! Worse than meaningless. They are distractions.

The secret to happiness is to embrace the humility to accept what comes and the courage to continue on your life's path with an open heart.

Oh, if only I were young again, I would travel! There's so much of the world I would like to have seen. But I'm too old for that now and too ill to manage the trip. I don't care much for clothes. I'm giving away all my jewelry. At this point in my life, I see all possessions as just more stuff, , as Cara called it. Meaningless! Worse than meaningless. They are distractions. ~ Olivia Rutledge from The Beach House

Smile: Happiness Is Right Under Your Nose!

The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school.

Not a word of what he said remains in my mind, but I remember going away with the impression that it was possible to live without knowing everything, after all, and that I might even try to be happy in a world full of riddles.

We all agree that its fit to be as Happy as we can, and we need no Instructor to teach us this Knowledge, 'tis born with us, and is inseparable from our Being, but we very much need to be Inform'd what is the true Way to Happiness.

Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love.

But if one had everything one could ever need or want, what was left to dream of?

I have read somewhere that we often spend a lifetime searching for what we already have.

Sometimes now was enough. Sometimes it was everything.

I am not sure what lonliness is," she said. "If it is not literally being solitary, is it the fear of solitude, of being alone with oneself? I feel no such fear. I like being alone." "What do you fear then?" he asked her. She glanced briefly at him and smiled, a fragile expression that spoke for itself even before she found words. "Never finding myself again....

I just want the anger to go away...I want to be happy. I want to live.

Sometimes it's better not to know. Nothing can change what is or what happened and digging around in the past is only going to make you miserable.

They knew how to be content with the ordinary and the simple. There was something to be said for that, and if Anthony could only learn that sort of contentment, maybe he wouldn't need those deep-breathing

Their physical appearances faded next to the expressions on their faces. Pure joy.

Be happy with the life you got, not the one you didn't get.

Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, 'I will never leave you nor forsake you.'

Those who love money will never have enough. How meaningless to think that wealth brings true happiness!

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Shopping is better than sex. At least if youre not satisfied, you can exchange it for something you really like.

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude.