Quotes About Contentment

Just for the record: happiness is not bullshit.

Fuck love and just get fat.

Perhaps he should think more about his life, aim to make something of it. Trouble was, he could imagine nothing that he wanted especially. He was happy to be a jolly good chap, competent at anything he turned his hand to and never letting down a friend or colleague. It was not much.

Genuine happiness comes from within, and often it comes in spontaneous feelings of joy.

Can wealth give happiness? look around and see, what gay distress! what splendid misery! Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, the mind annihilates and calls for more.

Let's drink to not being worse off. We have known better days.

What about me?' Dandelion asked. 'What should I do?' 'The same as usual. Nothing.

I just think it's amazing that a person could lose everything, chasing nothing.

We all feel better when we are grateful. There is great wisdom in understanding that no matter the situation, there is always something for which we can choose to be grateful.

From this point forward, you will focus on what can be controlled. And you will no longer be sad or worried. You will be grateful! After all, the seeds of depression cannot take root in a grateful heart.

But a grateful perspective brings happiness and abundance into a person's life.

As David told a friend one day, "I'm working so hard to live where we want to live that I don't actually get to live there." As

When you focus on the things you need," he went on to explain, "you'll find those needs increasing. If you concentrate your thoughts on what you don't have, you will soon be concentrating on other things that you had forgotten you don't have — and feel worse! If you set your mind on loss, you are more likely to lose … But a grateful perspective brings happiness and abundance into a person's life.

THE FIFTH DECISION FOR SUCCESS Today I will choose to be happy.

My God has bestowed upon me many gifts, and for these I will remember to be grateful. Too many times I have offered up the prayers of a beggar, always asking for more and forgetting to give thanks.

I'm big on being positive. I'm generally so positive and happy. I just always felt that I was exactly where I wanted to be. And things have continued to go in great directions.

Sometimes just to touch the ground is enough for me, even if not a single thing grows from what I plant.

I finally understood that I couldn't avoid working to provide for myself, but that can also be a wonderful thing, a beautiful thing.

If you start to accumulate things, you can't travel, so I lived without. I figured I could live a whole life without anything,

What were the things that really challenged me, made me wake up to my way of thinking that presupposed an industrialized system? In five words. Gentle. Small. Humble. Slow. Simple.

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If you smile when you are alone, then you really mean it.

The roots of envy always run deeper and wider than the relationship in which it surfaces. In

But godliness with contentment is great gain. (1 Timothy 6:6)