Quotes About Contentment

don't let the pursuit of happiness stop you from being happy right here, right now.

It is better to be a reader than richer.

You know that the pursuit of worldly things does not bring contentment. Find satisfaction in becoming a worker among the Lord's workers

How many paths had I avoided in life? How many times had I been content to stop at "close enough"--too afraid to push ahead? Too afraid to let go?Too afraid to give up . . . control.

There is greater clarity in the still waters of sadness, something not found in the babbling brooks of more sought after emotions.

Let your imagination spread, until you are satisfied, like I am.

The eye of a man is never satisfied with seeing.

No aacomplishments are important than self realization of self satisfaction.

The true recipe for a miserable existence is to quarrel with Providence.

It is no use to grumble and complain; It's just as cheap and easy to rejoice; When God sorts out the weather and sends rain - Why, rain's my choice.

There ain't nothing wrong with being alone, which is what I am, or what I have been. It's when it turns to loneliness, when you get to feeling blue about it all, that you're in trouble. There's the problem, loneliness.

What do you do when you already know what your problem is? What if it's not really a problem? It's only a problem if I want a relationship. If I want to fit into a conventional mode of happiness. It's only a problem if I care. And I can't tell if I care.

She is vaguely satisfied; in fact she is on the cusp of complete satisfaction, she teeters there, undecided. To give into complete satisfaction is to allow that it can disappear as quickly as it arrived. Once you feel it, you will want it forever. And you cannot have it forever. Because life is not perfect.

I love the idea of solitude being a gift. I think we can be afraid of being lonely, but if you figure out a way to own it and see it as a treasure and a pleasure and a joy, then it can be quite comforting.

You can be happy about a lot of things in your life, yet just one thing can make you miserable.

You allow yourself that pleasure of liking yourself. What if this is enough?

I've had enough me to last a lifetime,

I think my capacity to change has given me tremendous happiness, because who I am today I am completely content to be.

I think happiness comes from self-acceptance. We all try different things, and we find some comfortable sense of who we are. We look at our parents and learn and grow and move on. We change.

I'm enjoying myself this year and for once I'm not chasing my fitness.

You already are what you've been searching for until now. . . There's nothing to search for – you've already got it; you already are it. There's nowhere to get to – you're already here… You don't need improving, fixing or developing – who you already are is the all?encompassing energy behind life!

Anxiety is the subtle and pervasive destroyer of our happiness. It depends on thoughts of past and future. It cannot exist in the present.

A person had to learn to come to terms with the fate determined for him by God. It would do no good to grumble that one would rather be someone else or live somewhere else. Instead one had to try to make the best of the situation; that was the only way to fulfill God's plans.

I see that you are not happy with our command,' said the archbishop. 'No, Your Grace. I've tried to acquit myself well here at the cloister, and I don't mean to boast in any way when I say that, but I can honestly argue that I've done my best,' said Arn, crushed.