Quotes About Contentment

Divine Beloved, I arise with a grateful heart on this beautiful summer morning. May all the study, practice and prayer that I do be an offering to the enlightenment of all beings. May I be content to leave the Great Mystery of the Universe as a mystery, without thinking that I can figure it all out.

Psychiatrist and writer Jerry Jampolsky asks the question "Would you rather be happy or would you rather be right?" I've been working on choosing happiness for quite some time.

People whose lives are not lived on the mountain peaks of the world commonly forget that the shallows have a beauty of their own.

I celebrate myself," the poet Walt Whitman wrote. The thought is so delicious it is almost obscene. Imagine the joy that would come with celebrating the self — our achievements, our experiences, our existence. Imagine what it would be like to look into the mirror and say, as God taught us, "That's good.

I've three children, three grandchildren, I work, I travel, and I'm very happily married. I'm very satisfied and happy with my life and there really isn't anything I want.

The essence of life is not to find the one thing that satisfies us but to realize that nothing can ever completely satisfy us. And that's all right.

Never saying no to the self becomes the holy grail in a world more intent on the material than on the spiritual.

Don't worry. You're safe now. You've got nothing left to steal.

Most people simply aren't unhappy enough with the known to trade it for the unknown

To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self

She felt free now. Free and empty. No need to talk to anyone, or be polite, or bother about anything.

It's only when ye're older that yer look back and think how stupid it was to be wishing yer life away.' Molly

Even as a little girl, Irma Leopold had wanted above all things to see everyone happy with the cake of their choice. Sometimes it became an almost unbearable longing, as when she had looked down at Mademoiselle asleep on the grass this afternoon.

By finding a way to keep gratitude as a constant companion, the blessings of joy and contentment become our reward.

People say it is not the key to happiness, but I have always figured if you have enough money you can have a key made.

During the last year she was alive, at age 95, my mother said many times, "It's so freeing to realize that nothing really matters." She said it joyously, with relief, as if a burden had been lifted. She also said over and over, "Love yourself". Tollifson, Joan. Nothing to Grasp (p. 174). New Harbinger Publications. Kindle Edition.

You're not going anywhere.

During the last year she was alive, at age 95, my mother said many times, "It's so freeing to realize that nothing really matters." She said it joyously, with relief, as if a burden had been lifted. She also said over and over, "Love yourself.

for what we've had, instead of sadder for what we've lost.

I used to trouble about what life was for. Now being alive seems sufficent reason.

I said Jeannine why are you unhappy? I'm not unhappy. You have everything (I said). What is there that you want and haven't got? I want to die. Do you want to be an airplane pilot? is that it? And they won't let you? Did you have a talent for mathematics, which they squelched? Did they refuse to let you be a truck driver? What is it? I want to live.

She said that instead of conquering Everest, I could conquer the conqueror of Everest and while he had to go climb the mountain, I could stay home in lazy comfort listening to the radio and eating chocolates. She was upset, I suppose, but you can't imbibe someone's success by fucking them.

Marianne would love watching paint dry, if Wills was watching it with her.

Being lucky, doesn't always make you happy, though, does it? Especially if people keep telling you how lucky you are, telling you to count your blessings.