Quotes About Contentment

Be content with your own life, my friend, and live it well. Let others decide for themselves what path they will follow.

no man can truly imagine being happy, and that's why happiness isn't for sale here.

Be content with your own life, my friend, and live it well. Let others decide for themselves what path they will follow." She frowned up at him. "Even when you see, with absolute clarity, that it is wrong for them? That they hurt themselves?" "Perhaps people have a right to their pain," he hazarded. Reluctantly he added, "Perhaps they even need it.

Stop longing. You poison today's ease, reaching always for tomorrow.

There are many things in this unhappy world we cannot alter. We must learn to live with our lot and find peace with ourselves.

If God gave us everything we asked for, we'd be in chaos.

This was a rare treat: the wonderful sound of memory filled happiness.

This is golden, Katie thought as they rumbled down the freeway eating fast-food tacos. I love being "us".

Take it and be thankful.

It is all we have left to us. And while it is more than I ever dared dream, it is nowhere near enough.

One learns from the sea how little one needs, not how much. These were our islands now, islands cut off from the world of concrete and steel, from freeways and television

learns from the sea how little one needs, not how much. These were our islands now, islands cut off from the world of concrete and steel, from freeways and television

Most congenial, the booleying life, though never as exciting as the sea. Sure

The key is in learning how to live a healthy, satisfying, and serene life without being dependent on another person for happiness.

It requires a hard look at what is, rather than what you hope will be. As you let go of managing and controlling, you must also let go of the idea that "when he changes I'll be happy." He may never change. You must stop trying to make him. And you must learn to be happy anyway.

She didn't want to love save her, but to add to what was already good.

The moment I stopped spending so much time chasing the big pleasure of life. I began to enjoy the little ones, like watching the stars dancing in moonlit sky or soaking in the sunbeams of a glorious summer morning.

In a consumer society, contentment is a radical proposition. Recognizing abundance rather than scarcity undermines an economy that

And, while expressing gratitude seems innocent enough, it is a revolutionary idea. In a consumer society, contentment is a radical proposition. Recognizing abundance rather than scarcity undermines an economy that thrives by creating unmet desires. Gratitude cultivates an ethic of fullness, but the economy needs emptiness.

In a consumer society, contentment is a radical proposition.

In a consumer society, contentment is a radical proposition. Recognizing abundance rather than scarcity undermines an economy that thrives by creating unmet desires. Gratitude cultivates an ethic of fullness, but the economy needs emptiness.

In a consumer society, contentment is a radical proposition. Recognizing abundance rather than scarcity undermines an economy that thrives by creating unmet desires. Gratitude cultivates an ethic of fullness

Gratitude doesn't send you out shopping to find satisfaction; it comes as a gift rather than a commodity

If you're happy, if you're feeling good, then nothing else matters.