Quotes About Contentment

Clint would remain here until he was well enough to travel. She tried to tamp down the happiness within her, but couldn't. It had been too long since something had made her feel this elated, and she was going to hold on to the feeling as long as possible.

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

Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives.

I'm perfectly capable of staying indoors at home for a week without going anywhere. I enjoy just existing. I don't think of Formula 1 for twenty-four hours a day.

We possess only the happiness we are able to understand.

Happiness is rarely absent it is we that know not of its presence.

And [he] sailed back over a year and in and out of weeks and through a day and into the night of his very own room where he found his supper waiting for him and it was still hot

I read once that you need two things to be happy: any two of health, money, and love. You can cover the absense of one with the other two... But now I realized this was unmitigated bullshit, because health and money did not compare with love at all.

And in the past there is so blessedly nothing for us to worry about. Everything is settled.

If you compare yourself to others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.

And though age and infirmity overtake me, and I come not within sight of the castle of my dreams, teach me still to be thankful for life, and for time's olden memories that are good and sweet; and may the evening's twilight find me gentle still.

make for yourself at least a little corner, somewhere in the great world, where you may unbosom and be kind.

To be without desire is to be content. But contentment is not happiness. And in contentment there is no progress. Happiness is to desire something, to work for it, and to obtain at least a part of it.

Lower your expectations of earth. This isn't Heaven, so don't expect it to be.

When we cannot obtain a thing, we comfort ourselves with the reassuring thought that it is not worth nearly as much as we believed.

I had a happy marriage and a nice wife. I accomplished everything you can. What more can you want?

What else was Diogenes of Sinope seeking for than the true enjoyment of life, which he discovered in having the least possible wants?

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

We ask a great deal of the world at first -- then less -- and then less.

I have found that one of the commonest causes of unhappiness among my patients is that they are attempting to live their lives on the deferred payment plan. They do not live, or enjoy life now, but wait for some future event or occurrence. They will be happy when they get married, when they get a better job, when they get the house paid for, when they get the children through college, when they have completed some task or won some victory. Invariably, they are disappointed.

If you make friends with yourself, you'll never be alone.

The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere. —Ralph Waldo Emerson

Happiness is simply "a state of mind in which our thinking is pleasant a good share of the time.

If you are to be happy at all, you must be happy—period! Not happy "because of.