Quotes About Contentment

I love to sleep. Do you? Isn't it great? It really is the best of both worlds. You get to be alive and unconscious.

If you are good life is good.

My darling, she said at last, are you sure you don't mind being a mouse for the rest of your life? I don't mind at all I said. It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like as long as somebody loves you.

We are all a great deal luckier that we realize, we usually get what we want - or near enough.

It was slowly beginning to dawn upon Henry that nothing is any fun if you can get as much of it as you want. Especially money.

Never get out of bed, never go to the window, and never look behind the curtain.

as much as the next man

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

because we are all a great deal luckier than we realize, we usually get what we want—or near enough.

The only meals they could afford were bread and margarine for breakfast, boiled potatoes and cabbage for lunch, and cabbage soup for supper. Sundays were a bit better. They all looked forward to Sundays because then, although they had exactly the same, everyone was allowed a second helping.

Decide now that you will not spend your precious energy speculating about someone else's life and how it compares with yours.

We rob ourselves of immeasurable joy when we compare what we do know about ourselves with what we don't know about someone else.

Success is when you're seduced into thinking that your joy and satisfaction are not here but there--somewhere in the future, at some moment when you accomplish X or you win Y. Success can never get enough. It makes your head spin, because you get that thing you were desperately working for, for all those years, and when you get it, you realize that it isn't what you thought it was.

Gospel is the divine announcement that you are loved and accepted exactly as you are, that everything has been taken care of, that everything you've been striving to earn has been yours the entire time, that you belong, in exactly this condition that you are currently in, nothing additional required or needed.

When so much gets left behind, you discover that you're fine. You've got a little fear, like a fly buzzing around your head, but you're fine. You're also free. What a gift.

Some things you do for you. You do them because it gives you great satisfaction and it puts a smile on your face and that's it. And that's fine. It's not just fine, it's necessary. It makes you a better person, it fills your soul, it opens you up to life in its fullness. So don't apologize for it, enjoy it.

Sabbath is when you spend a day remembering that efficiency and production are not God's highest goals for your life. Joy is.

because having too many options can easily lead to being stuck, disconnected from your life because there's no pressing need to do anything.

It's possible to have emptied your savings account and be living in your friend's basement riding your bike everywhere because you can't afford a car and yet feel like you're bursting with vitality. It's also possible to have lots of money in the bank, living in the house you had custom built, going on expensive vacations to exotic places, and yet you're miserable.

You embrace your impotence, your powerlessness, your lack of control over the outcomes—you make peace with all that you can't do, with your limits, with all the people you can't help.

Once again I distrusted happiness, mistaking it for complacency.

he thought, "My own R. B. Russell, Jr.—I was crazy with happiness." He said then what he was to repeat many times: "That is me living all over again.

I refuse to grow younger. I came by my decrepitude the hard way and I propose to enjoy it.

People who are busy and happy don't write diaries; they are too busy living.