Quotes About Contentment

And Charlie, don't forget about what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he ever wanted. He lived happily ever after.

But you know, I don't think I will be so scared to die. I think it's like today: the end of a vacation when you are ready to go home.

I am grateful now to have it all—even the worry and the pain.

Look closely and you will find that people are happy because they are grateful. The opposite of gratefulness is just taking everything for granted.

Can you be grateful for everything? No. But in every moment.

It is not happiness that makes us grateful It is gratefulness that makes us happy. Every moment is a gift. … Whatever life gives to you, you can respond with joy. Joy is the happiness that does not depend on what happens. It is the grateful response to the opportunity that life offers you at this moment.

Benjamin Franklin, said: "Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one.

It's true I'm not very well off But I feel richer than Boris Karloff Because I'm a poet, because I know you And because I know how much I need Which isn't much but it's easy to bluff That you have enough when you have the freedom To know pretty well when enough is enough. —

Having money is less important than having peace.

Enough. These few words are enough. If not these words, this breath. If not this breath, this sitting here. This opening to life we have refused again and again until now. Until now.

It's just a real gentle moment. I'm here by myself and I don't mind. I kind of wish it could just stay like this for maybe a few years, or I just never moved out of this spot. I could just watch the light stay like this. And maybe somebody coming along and just putting their arms around me for a few minutes.

The kittens will make your sad go away." The

My heart had melted into something akin to a sensation of happiness, peace of mind one might even say, at the realization that I had now reached the very bottom of agony.

Life is not about creating perfection it's about finding Balance.

Thoreau once said that a man's riches are based on what he can do without. Perhaps in needing less, you're actually getting more.

Stay low, stay quiet, keep it simple, don't expect too much, enjoy what you have.

In short, the more inwardly defined I became, the less I needed to succeed and the less stressed I felt. The less I needed success, the easier it came. The less I had to get, the more I got. The less I needed to acquire power, the more power I realized I already had; before I realized that, I used to give my power away.

What are you, a Hindu?" he replied, "No, I'm an Undo" (another reason we chose this book's title). "Peace comes not from doing, but from undoing; not from getting, but from letting go. It's there already until you disturb it. The purpose of all spiritual practices is to stop disturbing what you already have.

I wasn't the only one who wished he was around more.... The trade-off we had to be content with was that our dad was Dean Martin.

He was entirely happy alone. He had his books and his music and his specimens, and that was all he needed. He also carried on a wide correspondence. His friends were far flung across the globe, but none of them intimate.

Do not collect passion into the equation. It is a dangerous foe, Theodora, like keeping a lion in the garden. It might seem safe enough, but it might well destroy you. No, do not yearn for passion. Ask instead for contentment, happiness. Those are to be wished for.

Perhaps I have simply decided that if such misadventures are the price I must pay to have you in my life, I am content to pay them.

Ah, do not mistake solitude for loneliness," he advised. "A man may be lonely in a crowd, or he can be quite content in the society of the natural world.

He smelled of leather and wool and tasted of apples and I could have died in that moment and counted myself happy.