Quotes About Contentment

And what's the point of changing when I'm happy as I am?

For peace of mind we need to resign as general manager of the universe.

If later on, as we read this, we might think "How happy we were then!" at least we'll have that. That as we lived them, these moments, we knew they were important, and that's all there is.

Good days are such a mysterious gift that you dare not question them much, and the only problem is they give you a false sense of security.

I don't like to discuss my marriage, but I will tell you something which may sound corny but which happens to be true. I have steak at home. Why should I go out for hamburger?

You can resent your bald spot or be glad you have a head.

You don't need a silver fork to eat good food.

I love my job when I'm not there.

Wherever satisfaction is found, in whatever act, actualize this.

When asked to perform a miracle, a Zen master responded: "My miracle is that when I feel hungry I eat, and when I feel thirsty I drink.

Moderately wise a man should be— don't wish for too much wisdom; a man's heart is seldom happy if he is truly wise. Moderately wise a man should be— don't wish for too much wisdom; if you can't see far into the future, you can live free from care.32

Having without having: it's possible, isn't it, that that's worse than not having at all?

Still, for all that, her life had lacked passion. The demons had never come for her.

There's something impoverished in those who want to really have everything.

I've got nothing to do today but smile.

Hey, I've got nothing to do today but smile.

Have a good time" Yesterday it was my birthday. I hung one more year on the line. I should be depressed. My life's a mess. But I'm having a good time. I've been loving and loving and loving. I'm exhausted from loving so well I should go to bed. But a voice in my head says, "Ah, what the hell

I always get very calm with baseball.

When I was thirty I began my life; at forty I was self-assured; at fifty I understood my place in the vast scheme of things; at sixty I learned to give up arguing; and now at seventy I can do whatever I like without disrupting my life.

5Let your life be free from love of money but be content with what you have, for he has said, "I will never forsake you or abandon you." 6Thus we may say with confidence: "The Lord is my helper, [and] I will not be afraid. What can anyone do to me?

I don't get a sense of American pride. I just get a sense that everyone is here, battling the same thing - that around the world everybody's after the same thing, just some minor piece of happiness each day.

real joy is a "severe matter"; it is the happiness of a soul which is "lifted above every circumstance.

He who is grasped by the one thing that is needed has the many things under his feet. They concern him but not ultimately, and when he loses them he does not lose the one thing he needs and that cannot be taken from him.

Il faut, voyez-vous, nous pardonner les choses: De cette façon nous serons bien heureuses Et si notre vie a des instants moroses Du moins nous serons, n'est-ce pas ? deux pleureuses.