Quotes About Contentment

To become desireless, to not want anything external to ourselves, means we rest in ourselves, whole, joyous and happy. In this state, our true nature is constant love, unending love, giving love.

There is never enough light." To which I responded without thought: "For women perhaps. We men are less exigent.

Do not be sad about what you do not have. Instead, be happy about what you do have. If you will be sad about what you don't have, you will not be happy about what you do have.

As long as this exists, this sunshine and this cloudless sky, and as long as I can enjoy it, how can I be sad?

I don't know what happiness is. I have periods of feeling joyous and peaceful and excited about what I'm doing, but I am also frequently very sad.

When the dog bites, when the bee stings, when I'm feeling sad, I simply remember my favorite things and then I don't feel so bad.

We are more unhappy to see people ahead of us than happy to see people behind us.

I cried at first, and then, it was such a beautiful day, that I forgot to be unhappy.

You need a reason to be sad. You don't need a reason to be happy.

With an ear open to your musical dialectic, one can be young and become old, can work and rest, be content and sad: in short, one can live.

I want you, I need you, but there ain't no way I'm EVER gonna love you. Now don't be sad, cause two out of three ain't bad.

Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.

You are sad in the midst of every blessing. Take care that Fortune does not observe--or she will call you ungrateful.

Thrice happy is that humble pair, Beneath the level of all care! Over whose heads those arrows fly, Of sad distrust and jealousy.

His statement to himself should have been, 'I possess this now, therefore I am happy', instead of what it so Victorianly was: "I cannot possess this for ever, and therefore am sad."

I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.

It's strange," Moominmamma thought. "Strange that people can be sad, and even angry because life is too easy. But that's the way it is, I suppose. The only thing to do is to start life afresh.

What you get will never make you happy; who you become will make you very happy or very sad.

Our sadness is not sad, but our cheap joys.

People waste their happiness - that's what makes me sad. Everyone's so scared to be happy.

Happiness is a sad song.

Is it sad that my first thought happened to be: Thank God I'm off the treadmill.

Sometimes we get so used to not really feeling anything, just going with the flow, that we forget how it feels to be really happy or sad.

It's pretty lonely and sad to be single. Every night was the same for me, I'd go home and curl up in bed with my favorite book. Well, actually it was a magazine.