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Quotes About Contentment

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.
~ Virginia Woolf
How easily we get trapped in that which is not essential - in looking good, winning at competition, gathering power and wealth - when simply being alive is the gift beyond measure.
~ Parker J. Palmer
I have a great family, I live an amazing life.
~ John Oates
I am what I am, I'm doing very well in my life, and I'm thankful to God for that.
~ LL Cool J
Life is precious and there's not a lot of room for anger.
~ Fran Drescher
Don't seek more days in your life but more life in your days.
~ Charles R. Swindoll
If you view life as a gold rush, you're going to end up worshiping a golden calf.
~ Cornel West
Our purpose in life is to be happy. From the very core of our being, we simply desire contentment.
~ Dalai Lama
I believe many of us are overnourished on entertainment junk food and undernourished on the bread of life.
~ Dallin H. Oaks
When you can no longer feel the life that you are, you are likely to try to fill up your life with things.
~ Eckhart Tolle
It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.
~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Living a good life leads to enduring happiness. Goodness in and of itself is the practice AND the reward.
~ Epictetus
Just be happy, and if you can't be happy, do things that make you happy. Or do nothing with the people that make you happy.
~ Esther Earl
I've had a great life, and it all happened because I didn't plan any of it.
~ Eugene Walter
Do not be caught up in materialism, one of the real plagues of our generation-that is, acquiring things, fast-paced living, and securing career success.
~ Ezra Taft Benson
Most true happiness comes from one's inner life, from the disposition of the mind and soul.
~ William L. Shirer
Stop trying to make this life into what it cannot and never was intended to be: jennah. Only then will it stop breaking your heart.
~ Yasmin Mogahed
I really like to live my life in a low-key fashion.
~ Alicia Keys
Dating should be a part of your life, not your life a part of dating. There is more to life than finding a date.
~ Henry Cloud
Pleasure is one of the most important things in life, as important as food or drink.
~ Irving Stone
If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
What good to us is a long life if it is difficult and barren of joys, and if it is so full of misery that we can only welcome death as a deliverer?
~ Sigmund Freud
Many ordinary illnesses are nothing but the expression of a serious dissatisfaction with life.
~ Paul Tournier
Fretting springs from a determination to get our own way.
~ Oswald Chambers