Quotes About Contentment

This is my child, this is my wealth: such thoughts are the preoccupations of fools. If we are unable to own even ourselves, why make such claims?

You have to know yourself and know what you can carry. If you're not comfortable, no matter how well dressed you are, you're not going to look right. I'd rather be happy and feel comfy.

The only person who is hurt by jealousy is you... Eliminate that word from your life... it may not make you unsuccessful selling your art, but it will destroy your happiness.

When we are capable of living in the moment free from the tyranny of "shoulds," free from the nagging sensation that this moment isn't right, we will have peaceful hearts.

You can't truly rest until every area in your life rests in God.

There is a way to live the big of giving thanks in all things. It is this: to give thanks in this one small thing. The moments will add up.

I've reached a happy stage in my life - you can call it "happy" - but I have no expectations anymore. I'm glad I'm not young anymore.

Life itself, when understood and utilized for what it is, is sweet.

A lot of people say there is no happiness in this life and certainly there's no permanent happiness. But self-sufficiency creates happiness.

We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away.

Plain living and high thinking are no more.

there is still an overwhelming social compulsion-an insanity of consensus, if you will-to get rich from life rather than live richly, to "do well" in the world instead of living well.

I have a great life, to tell you the truth.

Although I grew up in very modest and challenging circumstances, I consider my life to be immeasurably rich.

You really have to be satisfied with what you are and accept from life what it still very generously offers you - and notice it, and be glad for it.

Accomplishing something provides the only real satisfaction in life.

I'm more relaxed about life now that I'm older. I like it-despite the wrinkles. It's what I feel inside that's precious.

You cannot bring anything new into your life until you are grateful for what you have now.

Never be discontent with the life you've been dealt, be discontent with the way you're living it.

The appreciation of life does not require wealth or plenty. It requires only gratitude for the beauty of the world.

Finding one important thing in your life doesn't mean you have to give up all the other important things.

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace.

People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable.

All is going well, very well, I couldn't ask for anything better— So why do I hate my life?