Quotes About Contentment

Creating breathing room financially may lower your standard of living but raise your quality of life.

I have an awfully good life.

If we really feel like we're comfortable in our own skins now, we have a longer period of time to live out that kind of third or fourth act of our life.

Life isn't about constantly trying to scale peak after peak, it's about living at a high plateau & thriving

And one perfect day can give clues for a more perfect life.

Living simply means concentrating on what's important in light of eternity. And not taking the rest of life too seriously.

Everybody asks me, 'So, what are you doing now?' Why must I be doing something? All my life I've been doing something. All my life I've been doing. For now, I'm being -- being quiet, being grateful.

When I finally did stop and look at my life, I realized that I had done what I'd set out to do. In my pitiful little way, I had climbed the mountain I had chosen. And there I was, on top.

Happy is the person who has learned the secret of being content with whatever life brings him, and has learned to rejoice in the simple and beautiful things around him.

Real life security and contentment come not from putting a gun in the cupboard, but from taking a role in the world's future.

If the game of life ended tonight, would you be a winner?

I'm sufficiently independent to know that I can live well and comfortably all the rest of my life whether I'm rejected or not.

If you are perpetually angry, depressed, confused, and unloving, or your attention is elsewhere, it won't matter how successful you become or who is in your life - you won't enjoy any of it.

The disturbers of our happiness, in this world, are our desires, our griefs, and our fears.

Success is not how many zeroes your bank account has. It's about making the most of the life you have.

When life's conditions don't equal your expectations you are unhappy, have no expectations only appreciations (especially in the area of relationships)

I've discovered there is another life besides baseball. You have to be balanced to be a happy person.

I mean, any movie or story that makes you accept and be grateful for something about your life is doing something right.

I loved life too much to lust for life.

Life is not life at all without delight.

The best things in life are yours, if you can appreciate yourself.

When I stop chasing all the wrong things in life all the good things start to fall into my lap.

You can have small moments of happiness in life. You certainly can't expect years and years of it.

Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into other lives, and I come back to my own with greater contentment.