Quotes About Contentment

If you now had what you desire that's probably how you'd feel: relaxed, and happily fulfilled. So, if you like, skip all the rational steps to get to that point of fulfillment, and just relax

Happiness is a treasure. It nourishes the soul and gives us energy and enthusiasm in life.

Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace.

It was a condensed explanation, but I came to understand him to mean you could stop at, not all, but most of the moments of your life, stop for one heartbeat and, no matter what the state of your head or heart, say This is happiness, because of the simple truth that you were alive to say it.

Isn't that the greatest gift in the world-just not to care?

Isn't that the greatest gift in the world - just not to care? I feel so grateful for it.

Everything is working out, he keeps saying. For the first time, I'm not so sure. I think back to my life sober - working, getting up early to go on bike rides and shit, going to movies. I haven't looked at a newspaper in over two weeks. There could be a new war going on and I'd have no idea. But this is the life I want to live, right? I mean, I'm happier.

Tratemos de ser felices, recomiendo yo, chupando la miserable costilla humana. Extraigamos de ella el líquido renovador, Cada cual de acuerdo con sus inclinaciones personales. ¡Aferrémonos a esta piltrafa divina!

Oh, happiness," said Frieda. "That's not what this is about.

When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content.

So long as the great majority of men are not deprived of either property or honor, they are satisfied.

Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.

All around the circle, feeding on the green, green grass were fat and happy horses...

I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough..

There are moments in life- and I would have to admit that I don´t have them as often as I would like - when everything just comes together, and when, even being single, I feel happy, relaxed and confident. Some days, like today, I feel, as the French would say, so comfortable in my skin, that I could almost cry with the joy of being alive

Being happy, it seems to me, requires wanting what you have, whereas being unhappy requires wanting something different.

But excitement, I reckon, is overrated.

Isn't life that much easier when you decide to want what is rather than trying to bend life to fit what you want instead?

Happiness is a relative concept.

Seeing her books reassured her, made her feel calm.

Wanting everything is the thing that eventually tears you apart.

My true intent is all for your delight.

It's a wonderful life if you can find it.

I'm very lucky. I am one of those people who is able to go home, shut the front door and completely focus on the kids.