Quotes About Contentment

If you don't like your definition of 'good enough', then feel free to change that, but the goal before shipping is merely that. Not perfect.

One should be able to teach adequately and feel good about it.

I do not seek good fortune - I am good fortune!

It's O.K. to accept good fortune.

When you have got a thing where you want, it is a good thing to leave it where it is.

Every day is a good day.

It took me twenty years of living with my father to accept the idea that being good could be good enough.

I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.

I believe the test of government is the contentment of the people.

Sometimes just being still is the best thing you can do for yourself.

There's no there. That elusive 'there' with the job, the beach house, the dream, it's not out there. There is here. It's in you... right now.

Sometimes the feeling that life is great just swells up inside you and fills you with joy.

Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.

We were contented to let things remain as the Great Spirit Chief made them. They were not; and would change the rivers and mountains if they did not suit them.

Give a guy a girlfriend and a great job, he doesn't need therapy.

There is great freedom in simplicity of living.

Happiness is not that easy to achieve, but having a handsome husband, a beautiful baby, and a great job helps.

I would not change my blest estate for all the world calls good or great.

Sometimes we look back and 10 years from now we think, 'Boy, those were great old days.' Well, you know, we're living in the good old days.

I cannot sleep - great joy is as restless as sorrow.

The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.

The essential difference between the unhappy, neurotic type person and him of great joy is the difference between get and give.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

I'm not a famous celebrity of any kind. I'm a guy from Edmonton who's got a great job and I'm loving it.