Quotes About Contentment

Now I'm having to live with sales of around 50 000 per album - but I'm pretty content with my place in the general scheme of things, even if it's meant I don't drive a fancy car and can't afford grand vacations.

more money doesn't mean more better. It just means more.

You can't find happiness; happiness finds you. We are completely passive in the act of our own contentment because it isn't an act. It's a result. For the first time in years, she was living an uncomplicated life, and happiness had resulted.

He was doing what he had always wanted to do: code games. And he was happy, in the moment as always, not thinking at all about what would come next. If he could be here working on games with enough money for food and shelter, that was good enough for him. As he told the other guys on one of his very first days, put him in a closet with a computer, a pizza, and some Diet Cokes, and he would be fine.

The grass looks greener on the other side of the fence because you don't have to mow it. - David L. Bonar, First said by me circ. September 26, 1992 (about age 50).

Maybe a few fabulous drawings were nothing as compared to being able to ask for a glass of milk, or exchange a few words with a friend, or a father. What did he know?

Anhelamos marcharnos lejos y quedarnos en casa al mismo tiempo.

The thing you've got to understand about Eva and me is that we have a system. She does the wanting, I do the paying. That's how it's always been with us, and if I'm to be honest, until now it's suited me as well as it has her. Maybe better, since it's spared me the burden of having to want things for myself.

She looked toward the window, smiling away her life

Non c'è dispiacere più grande che ricordare la gioia passata nell'infelicità. 

Sometimes I think you are doomed to happiness

Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.

When I had no money, and a great book came out, I couldn't get it. I had to wait. I love the idea that I have hardcover books here and at home that I haven't read yet. That's how I view that I'm rich. I have hardcover books I may never read.

Enjoy every sandwich.

ayuda a tomar las cosas con otra filosofía, a no preocuparse por nada, a decir "Que se haga Su voluntad". Y es tan fácil vivir sin preocupaciones, haciendo el propio trabajo lo mejor posible y dejando el resto a Dios.

There is one safe and happy place, and that is in the will of God.

and agreeable to those who are not over-fastidious about trifles, and who delight in being in the open air.

When we accept what happens to us and make the best of it, we are praising God.

Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God.

Entertainment is the devil's substitute for joy. The more joy you have in the Lord the less entertainment you need.

You don't need human relationships to be happy, God has placed it all around us.

Joy is not gush. Joy is not mere jolliness. Joy is perfect acquiescence ~ acceptance, rest ~ in God's will, whatever comes.

Do not look back to the past, nor forward to the future. Claim only the present, for it holds God's will.

It is true that we may desire much more. But let us use what we have, and God will give us more.