Quotes About Contentment

Self-determination theory," he intones calmly, as if the moderator had never spoken, "states that human beings need three basic things in order to feel content. Number one, they need to feel competent at what they do. Number two, they need to feel authentic in their lives, and number three, they need to feel connected to others.

Acceptance is the key to happiness. You need to surrender yourself to the truth. You won't be happy until you do.

We would all say that deep down, all we want is to be happy. Yet we don't have a realistic understanding of what happiness really is. Happiness is closer to the experience of acceptance and contentment than it is to pleasure.

True happiness exists as the spacious and compassionate heart's willingness to feel whatever is present.

True happiness exists as the spacious and compassionate heart's willingness to feel whatever is present.

if our definition of happiness is "experiencing that which is pleasurable," we are going to be disappointed a lot of the time.

The next step in the process of liberation is to break this chain reaction of suffering whenever life is unpleasant and feeling content only when life is pleasurable.

know what you want, work to get it, then value it once you have it.

You carry your own ability to be happy, or the lack of it, wherever you are.

Happiness is not a reward. It's a consequence. You have to work at it every day.

Gratification kills desire. And constant gratification kills it permanently

Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.

Mr. Ankerson, however, was well provided for already. He had ordered a bottle of whisky for himself and was quietly enjoying a one-man orgy in the corner.

Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything.

Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.

Let nothing trouble you let nothing worry you everything passes away expect God God alone is sufficient

Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast." ~

Anyway, who in their right mind would ever say a person was supposed to be happy? In your life happiness is either cut to your length or isn't.

I'm a happy man, because I am successful in what I do, of course but what makes me most happy is I have people around me that I love and who love me back. This, for me, is the most important thing. Nobody likes to be alone.

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Wanting so mostly rarely withstands the presence of the thing we want. Say why.

I was a happy young woman and I just happened to write poetry. I wasn't trying to get anywhere, I was where I wanted to be..." Rest In love Queen!!

Further, Mah?n?ma, the noble disciple contemplates his own liberality: "Truly, blessed am I, highly blessed: that among creatures soiled with the defilement of meanness, I am living with a heart free from niggardliness, accessible to beggars, pleased by giving and sharing with others.