Quotes About Contentment

It is left to each of us to balance contentment regarding what God has allotted to us in life with some divine discontent resulting from what we are in comparison to what we have the power to become.

There is also a dimension of patience which links it to a special reverence for life. Patience is a willingness, in a sense, to watch the unfolding purposes of God with a sense of wonder and awe, rather than pacing up and down within the cell of our circumstance. Put another way, too much anxious opening of the oven door and the cake falls instead of rising. So it is with us. If we are always selfishly taking our temperature to see if we are happy, we will not be.

Enlightenment is understanding that there is nowhere to go, nothing to do, and nobody you have to be except exactly who you're being right now.

If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment

Since I was a kid." "Which you refer to as 'back when you were happy.'" "Right.

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon—instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our window today. —DALE CARNEGIE

When you're in the moment everything you want is right.

I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn't mean anything? What then?

There is a wager that we must all make; for the small stake of some rewarding mental training, we can attain lasting contentment and contribute to a positive outcome for our planet.

Yeah, but satisfaction brought him back.

Money brings some happiness. But after a certain point, it just brings more money.

It's amazing how flabby you get when you're happy.

I want to have money, so I don't have to spend my life chasing money.

It's cool to go places where working people are happy.

But there was, she knew, something else. Happiness, she supposed. Whatever that might be. What, exactly, she wondered, was happiness. Very positively she wanted it.

And money can't buy everything. For example: poverty.

Tread softly Breathe peacefully Laugh hysterically

Tread softly, Brathe peacefully, Laugh hysterically.

i love playing and chatting with children...feeding and putting them to bed with a little story, and being away from the family has troubled me throughout my...life. i like relaxing at the house, reading quietly, taking in the sweet smell that comes from the pots, sitting around a table with the family and taking out my wife and children. when you can no longer enjoy these simple pleasures something valuable is taken away from your life and you feel it in your daily work.

Edgardina sempre de preto; e feliz, envaidecida, porque a dor não arrefecia no seu coração.

A little wine is good for the soul." "A lot is better.

How successful you are on the outside is directly related to how relaxed you feel inside. Your emotional sense of well-being dictates your life. If

Be still and know that you are that which you desire to be, and you will never have to search for it.

For to desire is to confess that you do not now possess what you desire, and because all things are yours, you rob yourself by living in the state of desire.