Quotes About Contentment

Yet happiness isn't something you chase, it's something you are. It's something you think, it's something you believe.

If you cannot be happy here, at least you will be alive and safe. And that's important to me, Stephen. Somebody told me once he'd do anything to keep me safe, because he didn't want to be alone in the universe. Well, my precious, priceless Partner, neither do I.

You have to count on living every single day in a way you believe will make you feel good about your life--so that if it were over tomorrow, you'd be content with yourself.

So many of my friends are still trying to get record deals, and I've had one for 10 years now, where my only goal is to make the best music I can make. I've been very lucky. I have great faith that I'm exactly where I'm supposed to be, and whatever happens is going to be absolutely right for me.

In her minds eye she sat there, in the domesticated golden sunlight on the velvet sofa, lapped around by carpets and books and mahogany, solitary and content, as if, in fact, cloistered.

Well, being a perfectionist seems okay from the outside, but a perfectionist never enjoys anything, no matter how well it goes, because nothing is ever perfect.

It is winter now, and the roses are blooming again, their petals bright against the snow. My father died last April; my sisters no longer write, except at the turning of the year, content with their fine houses and their grandchildren. Beast and I putter in the gardens and walk slowly on the forest paths. [from the poem, Beauty and the Beast: An Anniversary ]

As he rode along William thought about all that he had learned from Moses Amyraut. He saw how pointless it was accumulating so many possessions. A single spark could take them all away. No, he told himself, there were more important things in life than social position and an abundance of possessions for him to strive for.

Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything it is because we are dangerously near to wanting nothing.

do more marveling and less whining.

Little is much, If love abides

I've pursued dreams and achieved them, but I don't think anybody should think their life is incomplete if they don't follow some dream. Happiness doesn't come from achievements, or money, or any sort of treasure. Happiness is a frame of mind, not a destination. It's appreciating what you've got and building relationships with those around you.

Happy is entirely up to you and always has been.

Morals are meant to be shared." He held me away for another moment, reading, then grinned and handed me the book. "I like this one." ..."It's better to love people than wealth. I love Dad, Mom, Kendall, Sandra, Nick, baby Stetson, and especially Hudson. I wouldn't trade them for a mountain of gold." "I love the word 'especially,'" he said. "And I love the person who wrote it." Then he bent over to kiss me.

What's my motto when it comes to money? Don't put so much emphasis on it!

It's just that I'm happy now, and I guess that's how we judge a place, isn't it? Not for what it is, but for what we are when we live there.

howled with laughter at this. Sandro took my hand. "Janice, the only way to happiness is to find people with whom you can eat, drink, and laugh. That is all. That is everything." He added. "And a spoonful of Nutella each day makes life more beautiful. It's an antidepressant.

For them, work is a way to afford life, but not a definition of who you are.

But you can't beat yourself up or compare yourself to others. Remember, the Bible says that the first will be last and the last will be first.

There, behind the eye of the camera, I was truly at peace.

Felicidad? ¿Qué felicidad? ¿Donde esta? ¿Que es la felicidad? Como si amar a alguien siempre fuera felicidad.

You are what you settle for.

You know you've got it, if it makes you feel good.

You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for