Quotes About Contentment

No scratch the word career. Careers are people who wish to advance. I only want to survive, draw a paycheck. This is merely a job. I can take or leave this place. I start to imagine quitting and following my yet-to-be-determined passion.

Like the perfect beach vacation, where the routine is so blissfully uneventful that when you return home and friends ask how your trip was, you can't really recall what exactly you did to fill up so many hours. That's what being with Dex is like.

It is not what I had planned - this day, this moment, these unlikely relationships, both old and new. Yet I feel overcome with peace and certainty that, for once, I am exactly where I should be.

Things are what they are and there's no point dwelling in the past or wondering what could have been.

She was generally a happy person but had a tendency to live in the past, making frequent references to "when you kids were little.

Wasn't there something to be said for working to live, as opposed to living to work?

Maybe someday I would be happy. —

It's better to be happy than comfortable, if you can't have both.

I may have had moments of regret in my life, but you know, they wouldn't add up to an hour.

It was like wanting ice cream instead of meat loaf, and being told that children in refugee camps would be grateful for the meat loaf. Yes, of course she had nothing to complain about, compared to so many people, but when had that ever stopped anyone from complaining? Happiness was a balloon that always hovered just out of arm's reach.

The days of my vanity are over and heaven knows they weren't happy enough to regret

thankfully.

No hagas que tu felicidad dependa de lo que no depende de ti

Recuerda que debes conducirte en la vida como en un banquete. ¿Un plato ha llegado hasta ti? Extiende tu mano sin ambición, tómalo con modestia. ¿Se aleja? No lo retengas. ¿No ha llegado aún? No lances desde lejos tu deseo, sino que espera a que el plato esté a tu lado.

Não procures que tudo quanto acontece aconteça como desejas, antes deseja que tudo aconteça como de facto acontece. Desse modo serás feliz.

Manual para una vida feliz

Don't seek to have events happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do happen, and all will be well with you.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid with regard to external things. Don't wish to be thought to know anything; and even if you appear to be somebody important to others, distrust yourself. For, it is difficult to both keep your faculty of choice in a state conformable to nature, and at the same time acquire external things. But while you are careful about the one, you must of necessity neglect the other

I must die. Must I then die lamenting? I must be put in chains. Must I then also lament? I must go into exile. Does any man then hinder me from going with smiles and cheerfulness and contentment?

Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.

Remember that you ought to behave in life as you would at a banquet. As something is being passed around it comes to you; stretch out your hand, take a portion of it politely. It passes on; do not detain it. Or it has not come to you yet; do not project your desire to meet it, but wait until it comes in front of you. So act toward children, so toward a wife, so toward office, so toward wealth.

Asked, Who is the rich man? Epictetus replied, "He who is content.

It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance

Freedom is secured not by the fulfilling of men's desires, but by the removal of desire.