Quotes About Contentment

ce que l'on veut est moins important que ce que l'on peut avoir.

mais leurs avis, au fond, je m'en fous, je ne juge pas leurs choix, alors il faut me laisser libre maintenant, libre de tenter d'être heureuse.

Pourquoi ai-je oublié à quel point c'est doux d'être ici? C'était comme si tous ses bonheurs récents avaient aussitôt été condamnés à l'amnésie.

Run?, ka pirms n?ves cilv?ka acu priekš? aizsl?d visi vi?a dz?ves skaist?kie mirk?i. Tikpat labi var gad?ties,ka visi pag?tnes neveiksmju un izmisuma mirk?i atgriežas apzi?? tieši tad, kad cilv?kam ac?s, atkl?jot savu satraucoš?ko smaidu, beidzot ieskat?s laime.

Before we can surrender ourselves we must become ourselves, for no one can give up what he or she does not first possess.6 Jesus puts it this way: "If you're content with simply being yourself, you will become more than yourself" (Luke 18:14 The Message). Before we can become our self we must accept our self, just as we are. Self-acceptance always precedes genuine self-surrender and self-transformation.

We all dream of home," said Mrs. Szince. "We dream of a place where what we are is right, where what we can do is the right thing.

Anybody who thinks money will make you happy, hasn't got money.

If I wanted to be famous, I could have been famous before.

It's about the quality of the worry," I said. "I have happier worries now than I used to.

I lost my spinal column a good many years ago. There ain't no surgery can put it back. Even if there was, I wouldn't want it. I like it better this way. More comfortable.

Talk of joy there may be things better than beef stew and baked potatoes and home-made bread -- there may be.

Then a calm fell upon him. The gushing began from all sorts of places, all over his body. He heard pleasurable little giggles on the outer edges of his mind, in the dark creases behind his thoughts. He felt good, better than he'd felt in years. As if he were inside a huge embrace. And he felt as if he had finally reached the right place, his home, his motherland.

today and in a good winter mood, someone not subject to seasonal affective disorder, someone with a generous

I still like boiled potatoes with the skins on," he said, "and I do not want a man standing in back of my chair, laughing up his sleeve at me while I am taking the potatoes' jackets off." Of pleasure and material things he was wary. "I have never known what to do with money after my expenses were paid. I can't squander it on myself without hurting myself," he said, "and nobody wants to do that.

One successful writer said he would never be a millionaire because he liked living like one too much.

is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.

This casual neglect, a lack of care and worry, helped him feel easy in this quiet and leisurely part of the city.

He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.

He is happy, whose circumstances suit his temper; but he is more excellent, who can suit his temper to any circumstances.

He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper, but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to his circumstance.

I should be content to look at a mountain for what it is and not as a comment on my life.

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it is sufficient. Meister Eckhart