Quotes About Contentment

Life is very sweet to me, and there is no position of power or wealth that could tempt me from the throne God has given me.

I don't have to have the biggest house or the biggest car or the longest mink, but quality of life is really glamorous.

I take life for what it has to offer me. I don't get aggravated about [getting older]. The wrinkles on my face are a natural process, so why should I get angry?

There is a deep, abiding, unshakable satisfaction in a life of complete failure.

Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple.

There are moments when it's too quiet. Particularly late at night or early in the mornings. That's when you know there's something lacking in your life. You just know.

You can't take life for granted. I am lucky to have everything I've ever wanted. I've got a beautiful wife, a job I've always dreamed of...and my face on my own t-shirts.

Life begins at eighty.

If I could change the way I live my life today, I wouldn't change a single thing.

The secret of contentment is the realization that life is a gift, not a right. Next to faith this is the highest art - to be content with the calling in which God has placed you.

Not romance but companionship makes the happiness of daily life.

Work-life balance was a mistake from the start. Because we don't really want balance. We want satisfaction.

Not having anything around to read is dangerous: you have to content yourself with life itself, and that can lead you to take risks.

I don't have a life where it's galas, posh affairs. It's me, my dog and a sofa. And a TV.

A life to hold, or to see slip through uncaring and inattentive hands, but always a life. And given one, we wish for two, or three, or more, so easily forgetting the one we had was spent unwisely

and did you get what you wanted from this life even so? i did.

The rain would not have bothered Fernanda, after all, her whole life had been spent as if it were raining.

Stop seeking out the storms and enjoy more fully the sunlight.

Surely joy is the condition of life.

But if you really want to learn about life, get a cat. The way I think people should relate to animals is with a cat. Because the world is his.

I look down the farthest side of the mountain, fulfilled and understanding all, and truly content that I lived a full life and one that was my own choice

Life gave me everything I asked If all I asked was not a great deal, that's my problem!

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

If four of you are playing hide and seek you'll only ever find the other three. For you are already right here. So what on earth is it that you're looking for? You are the very thing that you seek.