Quotes About Contentment

Don't complain About anything Not even to yourself.

It's really not about doing, it's more about being. You might find it relaxing," said Pooh. "I know I do.

It's not hard to be me, thought Pooh. Just be Here and Now, and be Kind.

Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.

Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.

Thomas Aquinas writes: "There is within every soul a thirst for happiness and meaning.

Why shouldn't it be that way for the rest of us? Why not just go with it? Just walk the dog and send the tweets and eat the scones and play with the hamsters and ride the bicycles and watch the sunsets and stream the movies and never worry about any of it? I didn't know it could be that easy. I didn't know that until just now. That sounds good to me.

We suffered failures of imagination just like everyone else, our daring was wanting, and our daily contentment too nearly adequate for us to give it up.

If you think that happiness means total peace, you will never be happy. Peace comes from the acceptance of the part of you that can never be at peace. It will always be in conflict. If you accept that, everything gets a lot better.

I'm not big on regret. It's not on my schedule.

There is an hour when you realize: here is what you have been given. More than this, you won't receive. And what this is, what your life has come to, will be taken from you. In time.

Relief is happiness for those who, otherwise, would have no happiness.

I lock my door upon myself - a poet had said. I turn my key and there's -- happiness.

My wish is to live a life in which emotions come slowly as clouds on a calm day. You see the approach, you contemplate the beauty of the cloud, you observe it passing, you let it go. You do not dwell upon what you have seen, you do not regret it, you are content to understand that the identical cloud will never come again—no matter how beautiful, unique, you do not weep at its loss.

She wanted a relationship that seemed already mature, if not old and settled, at the start. Newness and rawness did not appeal to her.

Happiness is being in one place. The picture fixes you in one place.

How happy she was, how elated!

It's fine, I have it. It's fine.

Despite all of my moaning and groaning about the romantic disasters that continued to befall me, I knew if I were ever forced to choose I would take a good book over a good relationship any day of the week.

Wisdom is doing now what you are going to be happy with later on

Seek His face and not His hand.

Nobody has a perfect life and it's entirely possible that if you want someone else's life they are busy wanting someone else's too–maybe even yours.

We can get excited by thinking about what all we have or can have, OR we can get discouraged by thinking about what all we don't have.

Many people say "my life stinks". Well, your life will stink if you spend today thinking about tomorrow.