Quotes About Contentment

And let's say that our ambition in life is to become successful and to accumulate more things. When we do, we reinforce who we are, without ever addressing how we really feel. I call this being possessed by our possessions. We become possessed by material objects, and those things reinforce the ego, which needs the environment to remind itself of who it is. If we wait for anything outside us to make us happy,

True happiness has nothing to do with pleasure, because the reliance on feeling good from such intensely stimulating things [that come from the external environment] only moves us further from real joy [which exists internally, independently of the external environment].

Si creemos que en cuanto tengamos el dinero para comprar más cosas seremos de lo más felices, lo estamos viendo al revés. Tenemos que sentirnos felices antes de que la abundancia aparezca en nuestra vida.

Qué sentido tiene querer algo cuando lo tienes todo? Cuando creas desde la plenitud, te embarga la sensación de que ya posees eso que deseas.

When you think of the possessions you now own or the ones you hope to own—or when you're envying others for what they have—remember that the scriptures also warn that where your treasure is, there your heart is also.

Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to.

Seeking personal happiness, more often than not, can make people more selfish. Therefore, feeling happy is better viewed as a by-product of living well rather than an aim in itself.

Doctors don't seem to realize that most of us are perfectly content not having to visualize ourselves as animated bags of skin filled with obscene glop.

You ever find a cat sleeping in a ray of sun? There's a sound over there. It's a golden sound. That's the only way to describe it. It's a bright sound, and it has little flecks of music in it, drifting like motes of dust. And you just know if you let that sound get inside you, if you hummed along with it, you'd rest like a cat in the sun. A perfect rest. You could rest a billion years.

When it came to producing a state of focus, quiet contentment, and inner peace, Zen meditation ran a very distant second to caffeine.

Vic just laughed at that, didn't bother to tell him she had pulled his cell phone apart and shoved it in the garbage the day before. He took her in his arms, held her in his bearish embrace. He was a big man, glum about being overweight, but he smelled better than any guy she had ever met. His chest smelled of cedar and motor oil and the outdoors. He smelled like responsibility. For a moment, being held by him, she remembered what it had been like to be happy.

Maybe she had found everything the world had to offer her: a notion very like despair.

Happiness will do more for you than any wonder drug the apothecaries can invent!

I don't like money actually, but it quiets my nerves.

You know, I can be the happiest man in the world with minimal record success.

He used books the same way he used alcohol: to pretend that he was not here, and if he was here, that he was happy for a change.

You don't need to have anything else in order to be happy right now. You can choose to be happy.

I can't complain, but sometimes I still do.

Cine este bogat? - Cel care ?tie s? aprecieze ce are.

WHAT, THEN, OF the secret of happiness? I know stories that touch upon it and even one by that name. But for me, the secret of happiness sits atop a long list of life's secrets. Perhaps that's the secret—there is no secret of happiness. Yet, we keep searching, maybe because the simple act of looking for it makes us happy. As

He wasn't happy. Not yet. He wasn't peaceful, not entirely. But he was grateful for his life and the evidence of God's grace, and for now that was enough.

No matter how much crap a man has," she told him when she visited his office, "he will fill every available inch of open space. Put him in a smaller office with just as much stuff, and the stuff shrinks to fit. Add a hundred square feet and his stuff will spread over it like a rising

Stress is caused by being 'here' but wanting to be 'there'." —Eckhart Tolle

Prospering just doesn't have to do with money.