Quotes About Contentment

I live a very quiet life, although I'm very urban and a diehard New Yorker

What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money.

Be as simple as you can be; you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated and happy your life can become.

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

The happiness you are seeking is not to be found in the flow of life, but in your attitude toward whatever life brings.

I have a very good life, so I have nothing to complain about. Sometimes, I just have existential angst.

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

It is one of the blessings of wilderness life that it shows us how few things we need in order to be perfectly happy.

No one has a perfect life. Everybody has something that he wishes was not the way it is.

The best things in life are free

Life need not be easy, provided only that it is not empty.

We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.

Why do people measure life by the years instead of how good the years were?

You have to be able to look back at your life and say, "Yeah, that was fun."

Great are the rewards of an industrious, affluent and quiet life, but even greater is the attraction of the abyss.

I had a vision of that last small expedition, the last group, setting out. Maybe it was just a dozen, maybe less. Tried to imagine it as Silvina had. Trying their best to overcome those obstacles. Each one of those individuals on an epic journey. One they never came back from. But the joy. Even then, there must have been moments of joy and of contentment on the journey. Sanctuaries and times of plenty. It wasn't just a winnowing. It was a life.

Betly was a successful man and thought that everyone else should love life as much as he did.

Lesson number one from the Lord's vineyard: coveting, pouting, or tearing others down does not elevate your standing, nor does demeaning someone else improve your self-image. So be kind, and be grateful that God is kind. It is a happy way to live.

Well, I look at it like this: When you go to a restaurant, the less you know about what happens in the kitchen, the more you enjoy your meal. If the soup tastes good, everything's cool, and you don't necessarily want to know what's in it. The same thing holds true with movies.

Elsa smiled, her heart full and her head in a good place. Her people were happy. She was content. And she was very, very loved by a sister who had finally been returned to her. Things were exactly as they should be.

If we all focused on what we have right now, instead of worrying about all that could go wrong, we'd be so much happier.

Maybe not getting what she wanted gave her everything she wanted after all.

I can't help but smile. Win or lose today, I know I've already won. My life is just the way I always wanted it to be. So I just hold on tight, thankful that I finally know where this princess belongs.

This life is not a race or a contest, there is enough abundance to go around, your seat at the table is secure, and you have incredible gifts to offer. You are not in competition with your peers.