Quotes About Contentment

I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness.

It's ironic that we rush through being "single" as if it's some disease or malady to get rid of or overcome. The truth is, most likely, one day you will meet someone and it will be gone. And once it's gone, it's really gone! Why does no one tell us how important it is to enjoy being single and being by yourself? That time is defining and amazing and nothing to "sure". It is being alone that will actually set you up the best for being with someone else.

I retire with a smile on my face, in good health, and ready to spend autumns at my kids' games instead of my own. I'm excited to start the next chapter of my life.

There's no way I can justify my salary level, but I'm learning to live with it.

Of course I look at the glass half full. The only time I would look at it half empty is when I think about how good the first half tasted.

Be grateful for the positive things in your life... right now, today... while you still have them.

she lets us see, she lets us think, she lets us feel, that we can get to a position where we do not have to struggle, we do not have to choose, and that there are ways of being in the world that allow us, in the same breath, to live in our domestic ordinariness and still create.

Living simply is not about living in poverty or self-inflicted deprivation. It's about living an examined life where one has determined what is truly important and enough … and then just let go of all the rest.

Satisfactions are fulfillment of the heart. Dissatisfactions are the rumblings of the mind.

It doesn't matter how wealthy or powerful you are, if you can't enjoy the sunshine, you can't be truly happy.

Or even a really good hug! Jesus, your arms around another person, someone's arms round you, tight, so tight. Cause it's impossible to be happy all the time, to have a happy whole life, but you can be happy in bursts: with a really good hug you could be happy for...for half an hour maybe, and then that would be the best way, not to waste your time trying to get permanently happy, but just the next half-hour you are happy for, well immediately after, just fucking kill yourself.

I wouldn't say that I've had a tough life by any stretch of the imagination.

I thank everyone I don't love. They don't cause me heartache they don't make me write long letters they don't disturb my dreams I don't await them anxiously I don't read their horoscopes in magazines I don't dial their numbers I don't think of them. I thank them a lot they don't turn my life upside down.

Like the lark that soars in the air, first singing, then silent, content with the last sweetness that satiates it, such seemed to me that image, the imprint of the Eternal Pleasure.

Everyone confusedly conceives of a good in which the mind may be at rest, and desires it; wherefore everyone strives to attain it.

Create your own happiness.

Unless each day can be looked back upon by an individual as one in which he has had some fun, some joy, some real satisfaction, that day is a loss.

Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.

Our pleasures were simple-they included survival.

Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.

It must be poor life that achieves freedom from fear.

I'll live a lush life in some small dive.

I have very few friends. I have a handful of close friends, and I have my family, and I haven't known life to be any happier.

When you reduce what you need in life to the bare minimum, then that's when you achieve true freedom.