Quotes About Contentment

And if you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.

After supper we went up-stairs and smoked and read in bed to keep warm. Once in the night I woke and heard the wind blowing. It felt good to be warm and in bed.

I've had plenty to worry about one time or other. I'm through worrying.

Todo hombre que empieza a vivir de una manera seria por dentro, empieza también a llevar una vida más sencilla por fuera

The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without.

I'm Not All-Right, and You're Not All-Right, But That's Okay—THAT'S All-Right

William James, in his "Talks to Teachers," derided that "ceaseless frenzy" in which we always feel that we "should be doing something else." The ceaseless frenzy, the race through life, are symptomatic of the numbing of spirituality.

Those who lack gratitude's vision do not possess things; things possess them. And that is misery.

My good friend the Governor said I could settle down at Port Stanley and take things quietly for a few weeks. The street of that port is about a mile and a half long. It has the slaughterhouse at one end and the graveyard at the other. The chief distraction is to walk from the slaughterhouse to the graveyard. For a change one may walk from the graveyard to the slaughterhouse.

In a person's lifetime there may be not more than half a dozen occasions that he can look back to in the certain knowledge that right then, at that moment, there was room for nothing but happiness in his heart.

Labi b?tu, ja var?tu nopirkt k?du drusci?u laimes. Ja b?tu k?da vieta, kur to p?rdod.

Si un día hemos de tener una conversación con Dios acerca de la medida de nuestras vidas, yo prefiero que Él me pregunte por qué intenté hacer demasiado, en lugar de que me pregunte por qué me conformé con tan poco.

Chiar în vârtejul relelelor daÈ›i sufletelor voastre veselia cea de toate zilele, c?ci pentru morÈ›i belÈ™ugul aurului nu mai are preÈ›.

Sometimes a little song is sweet to hear, even if the orchestra is more accomplished

Un sabio, sí, era un sabio quien por primera vez alzó en su mente y con su lengua expresó que la boda con un igual es lo mejor, con mucho, y que ni con quienes por su riqueza viven en la molicie ni con quienes por su linaje están ensoberbecidos, cuando uno es un jornalero, ha de ambicionar casarse...

MI definición de una mujer hermosa ha ido cambiando con el tiempo. En mis años mozos era una rubia despampanante; más adelante fue una mujer madura, afable, conversadora y con bueno sentido del humor; y hoy en día sería una mujer que se contenta con sentarse a mi lado a ver la televisión.

In our consumer culture, we always want the next best thing: the latest, the newest, the youngest. Failing that, we at least want more: more intensity, more variety, more stimulation. We seek instant gratification and are increasingly intolerant of any frustration. Nowhere are we encouraged to be satisfied with what we have, to think, this is good. This is enough.

In this world there are only two tragedies. One is getting what one wants, and the other is not getting it." When

Getting what we want undermines the thrill of wanting it.

The era of pleasure has arrived.

Happy isn't even a real idea, he said. It's just like love. A reasonably skeptical person doesn't even know what it means.

Expect nothing, and you will enjoy everything!

There are only two possible outcomes whenever you compare yourself to another, vanity or bitterness, and both are without value.

Tamzene Donner was a woman at peace with the vagaries of life: "I am as happy as I can reasonably expect in this changing world.