Quotes About Contentment

I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.

Four be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe. Four be the things I'd been better without: Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt. Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne. Three be the things I shall have till I die: Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye.

Inventory: "Four be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe. Four be the things I'd been better without: Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt. Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne. Three be the things I shall have till I die: Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye.

Why did some people have so much? And yet, compared with Lily, she herself must seem almost rich. Was it all like this? Did every one look with envy at the one above? Funny. And funny, too, that the thought of someone else being worse off than you were yourself should make you feel more cheerful.

I suppose all young men dream of making a fortune," she said. "But most of them come to be content to make a living.

In Zen training the hungry ghost realm ... presents as the attempt to "get" emptiness. "I needed so much to have nothing to touch," sings Leonard Cohen, "I've always been greedy this way.

When you have built a satisfying relationship with yourself, then you have something of great worth to share with others. Abundance

I am not suggesting you shouldn't work hard, but I am suggesting that if you are defining your value by the chase—by your ambition, your work, and your achievement—then you are simply chasing after the wind, and ultimately, it is meaningless.

Money is good, love is wealth.

Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none.

Some of the best nights in your life will never make it onto your Wikipedia page. Stop worrying about your credits and consider enjoying the day. You die at the end.

I'd far rather be happy than right any day.

Happy marriage is the greatest wealth a man can possess, and one that a peasant can have as easily as a king.

Hey, any day you get through the afternoon here's a good day.

People are most content when they're growing. When they're accomplishing goals, working hard to achieve something difficult and then achieving it." Victor paused. "But most important of all is a person's social network. The quality of relationships. Friends, relatives, co-workers, and so on. Emotional connections. I have

Because we aren't wired for utopia. Evolution didn't drive us to the top of the food chain by allowing us to be content. Human evolution favors anxiety over happiness. Happiness dulls our sharpness. Anxiety, on the other hand, ensures we maximize our attention to possible threats to our survival.

Here are a few selections from Ridley's Rational Optimist: Page 27: Besides, a million years of natural selection shaped human nature to be ambitious to rear successful children, not to settle for contentment: people are programmed to desire, not to appreciate.

To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

There are many attitudes that we all take in our lives, some of which dominate at one point in our lives and recede in another. But a life lived without gratitude is not a life properly lived. It is a life that is lived off-kilter: one in which, incapable of realizing what you have to be thankful for, you are left with nothing but your resentments and can be contented by nothing but revenge.

It is a tendency identified by the late Australian political philosopher Kenneth Minogue as 'St George in retirement' syndrome. After slaying the dragon the brave warrior finds himself stalking the land looking for still more glorious fights. He needs his dragons. Eventually, after tiring himself out

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.

Joy is deep satisfaction in the will of God, and this must be coupled with recognizing the reality that God's will is everywhere and in everything. There is no place where we may go and be allowed to murmur or despair because God's will is somehow "not there.