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Quotes About Contentment

Don't be one of those souls who says, 'If only I had my life to live over.' Live your life in such a way that once is enough.
~ Walter Cunningham
Don't seek, don't search, don't ask, don't knock, don't demand - relax.
~ Rajneesh
Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it. [at least it will feel like it!]
~ Ralph Marston
There are people who so arrange their lives that they feed themselves only on side dishes.
~ Jose Ortega y Gasset
You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.
~ Karl Lagerfeld
When you discover that all happiness is inside you, the wanting and needing are over, and life gets very exciting.
~ Byron Katie
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
~ Horace
Not knowing who God made us to be, trying to be who we are not, or even just desiring to be someone else, can only lead to a life of misery, frustration, and unfulfillment.
~ Stormie Omartian
People try to make a Greek tragedy of my life, and they can't do it. I'm too happy.
~ Curt Flood
I want to say, without hesitation, the purpose of our life is happiness.
~ Dalai Lama
What brings fulfillment is gratefulness, the simple response of our heart to this life in all its fullness.
~ David Steindl-Rast
Small daily happenings make life spectacular.... start enjoying the small things in life!
~ Andy Rooney
I see no point in being despondent. We might as well enjoy ourselves during our brief tenure of this life.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.
~ Annie Dillard
It was when I was happiest that I longed most...The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing...to find the place where all the beauty came from.
~ C. S. Lewis
I've been really blessed to have a lot of romance in my life. It's like my last luxury.
~ Lana Del Rey
Approach your own inner life with a loving quality that accepts who you are without trying to change who you are.
~ Laozi
I am happy as happiness goes, for a woman who has so many memories and who lives the lonely life of an actress
~ Lillie Langtry
I lead a simple life. I feed the fish. I walk the dogs. I cook dinner. Occasionally I take a meeting.
~ Macaulay Culkin
When you're happy for no reason, you're unconditionally happy. It's not that your life always looks perfect - it's just that however it looks, you'll still be happy.
~ Marci Shimoff
There were times over the years when life was not easy, but if you're working a few hours a day and you've got a good book to read, and you can go outside to the beach and dig for clams, you're okay.
~ Mary Oliver
I've got an air mattress for a bed...really living the high life.
~ Clayton Kershaw
Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.
~ Epicurus