Quotes About Contentment

If you know how to keep yourself pleasant within, irrespective of what is happening around you, Ultimate Liberation cannot be denied to you.

I'm fulfilled in what I do. I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes - the finer things of life - would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

Today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness.

You can never get enough of what you don't need, because what you don't need won't satisfy you.

If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never be truly fulfilled.

Complacency is the deadly enemy of spiritual progress. The contented soul is the stagnant soul.

The heart is always the place to go. Go home into your heart, where there is warmth, appreciation, gratitude and contentment

You can give joyfully only when you have found something so valuable within yourself that everything else does not mean so much to you anymore.

Either give me more wine or leave me alone.

We can go through our whole lives worrying about our future happiness, and totally miss where true peace lives-right here, right now.

At this moment, is there anything lacking? Nirvana is right here now before our eyes. This place is the lotus land. This body now is the Buddha.

Most people are unhappy; and they are unhappy because there is no love in their hearts.

It is good to laugh. Laughter is spiritual relaxation.

Making peace with one's truth is to live in one's own moment, moving passionately forward in joy.

Learning to celebrate joy is one of the great practices of the spiritual life.

Surrender and living in the present are one and the same.

All you realy need to do is accept this moment fully. You are then at ease in the here and now and at ease with yourself.

Possessing material comforts in no way guarantees happiness. Only spiritual wealth can bring true true happiness.

Acceptance is the spiritual hammock.

Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not.

All unhappiness is caused by our trying to be limited, to be an ego. The more we are our Self, the happier we are. We will never be completely happy until we are completely being our Self.

Theres nothing more depressing than having everything and still feeling sad. We must learn to water our spiritual garden.

Grace is available for each of us every day - our spiritual daily bread - but we've got to remember to ask for it with a grateful heart and not worry about whether there will be enough for tomorrow.

That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.