Quotes About Contentment

If you're having fun at the beach, like we are, but you spend all your time here wishing you could be here all the time, you're wasting the time you're here.

Mrs Forrester said you could ruin a thing by wishing for something else. "If you're having fun at the beach, like we are, but you spend all your time here wishing you could be here all the time, you're wasting the time you're here.

We can't always have what we want in life. I should know that by now.

But until we decide what "enough" means, we'll never know whether we've won or not; we'll never be happy.

One is never as happy as one thinks, nor as unhappy as one hopes.

This living stuff is a lot. Too much, and not enough. Half empty, and half full.

The exhausting effort to control time by altering the effects of age doesn't bring happiness

Daniel Wolf's advice—want what you have.

I have assessed my happiness ratio and this is the result. I am totally content whenever the ones I love are happy about something little, big, insignificant, whatever. I just don't think anyone could possibly have the same wonderful, intense, compelling feelings that I have for this family of mine.

And in that moment with the warmth of the sun and coolness of the rock and the mountains and cedar all around her, she knew she would be okay with whatever happened to her. And with that thought, never before had she felt so free.

You can't buy what you want. It all comes as a gift.

I travel light. I think the most important thing is to be in a good mood and enjoy life, wherever you are.

Most people think, when they're young, that they're going to the top of their chosen world, and that the climb up is only a formality. Without that faith, I suppose, they might never start. Somewhere on the way they lift their eyes to the summit and know they aren't going to reach it; and happiness then is looking down and enjoying the view they've got, not envying the one they haven't.

That'll do, Pig. That'll do. -Farmer Hogget

That'll do, pig, that'll do.

as long as your girl can get dong then you are okay

Pour vivre heureux, vivons incultes? Je dis non! Vivre heureux, je m'en fous!

I think the key to life is just being a happy person, and happiness will bring you success.

Not everyone can wait: neither the sated nor the satisfied nor those without respect can wait. The only ones who can wait are people who carry restlessness around with them.

Desires to which we cling closely can easily prevent us from being what we ought to be and can be; and on the other hand, desires repeatedly mastered for the sake of present duty make us richer.Lack of desire is poverty.

In particular, our church will have to confront the vices of hubris, the worship of power, envy, and illusionism[28] as the roots of all evil. It will have to speak of moderation, authenticity, trust, faithfulness, steadfastness, patience, discipline, humility, modesty, contentment.[

Anxiety creates its own treasures and they in turn beget further care. When we seek for security in possessions we are trying to drive out care with care, and the net result is the precise opposite of our anticipations. The fetters which bind us to our possessions prove to be cares themselves.

it's harder for us to find what we are looking for and must do without, since we have come to expect more from friendship than most other people do. In this respect as well, it's not so easy to make do with "substitutes.

I think that even in this place we ought to live as if we had no wishes and no future, and just be our true selves.