Quotes About Contentment

Good enough is good enough. Perfect will make you a big fat mess every time.

I want to lay up like that, to float unstructured, without ambition or anxiety. I want to inhabit my life like a porch.

We do not want riches, we want peace and love.

I am poor and naked but I am the chief of a nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.

Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.

We each own one car, and we have a reasonable house. It's a lovely place to be, but it's not extravagant.

I don't like to own things, I feel freer when I don't own things. Silence is very important to me. I find being alone rather relaxing.

quería una persona, quería que esa persona me quisiera y no pensaba que uno tenía que buscar, incesantemente, en otros cuerpos lo que ya había encontrado en uno solo (...)

Naar de vertraging der vlakten verlang ik, naar het gras der rust, naar wolken van eenzaam varen en de wattenwind der zuiverheid, naar de lommerdorpen van ontspanning en pastorieën der voltooide liefde.

Pourquoi cet absurde besoin de savoir ? Et si les hommes veulent être heureux, qu'ils se chargent eux-mêmes de leur bonheur !

Of all things, good sense is the most fairly distributed: everyone thinks he is so well supplied with it that even those who are the hardest to satisfy in every other respect never desire more of it than they already have.

Good sense is the most evenly distributed thing in the world; for everyone believes himself to be so well provided with it that even those who are the hardest to please in every other way do not usually want more of it than they already have.

Le bon sens est la chose du monde la mieux partagée : car chacun pense en être si bien pourvu, que ceux même qui sont les plus difficiles à contenter en toute autre chose, n'ont point coutume d'en désirer plus qu'ils en ont.

Quand on est en possession d'une base stable et d'une direction sûre, on n'éprouve nul besoin de changement. [...]

I do not like money, either for itself or for what it can buy, since I want nothing we know about.

Through the absence of what we think we have to have, we can experience the discovery of our wholeness

Iedereen weet toch dat je alleen maar gelukkig kunt zijn wanneer je nergens naar verlangt?

Love wasn't about numbers, Naomi realized then. It wasn't about selling yourself or wanting anything in return. It wasn't about hoping for safety. It was just— That purr.

I've never had anything but the freedom to do what I wanted just as long as it made me happy.

I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. I can do all this through him who gives me strength" (Philippians 4:11–13).

Yes, we might've had our problems, but if you were that unhappy, then you should've left me. You don't seek solace in the arms of another man. You don't go to the other side, hoping the grass is greener. You water the lawn you have!

I'm just saying, sissy, love the life God gave you. Stop trying to create a different one.

We are designed to love and be loved. To love what we do and be able to boldly say we are living our best life. And if you're not walking in your happiness every day, you need to change the path.

Mama Pearly saying, "Seize your happiness.