Quotes About Contentment

The little things in life are the happiest

The A-B-C's of Living Life's Purpose: A=Accept all things you can't change. B=Be Grateful for all that you have. C=Constantly create progress towards to your goals & dreams.

When you are consciously aware of all that you have to be grateful for, your life is in perfect harmony.

I was surrounded by life and beauty. My soul was content, and my life felt full.

I enjoy my life. I think I have a very good life. And I think I'm very satisfied with the direction of my career and just my lifestyle and everything like that. So I wouldn't change a single thing.

I struggle in life to find a sense of joy in things.

Your value is not determined by your valuables, and God says the most valuable things in life are not things!

I have finally figured out that the purpose of life is to enjoy it.

I feel that I've had a happy life, not a very useful life, but a happy one.

Some people prefer the finer things in life, I'm alright just hanging out with the ghost of Vincent Price

If you have grasped the purpose of life there is no point in trying to make life into something it is not or cannot be.

Have no judgments about your life, no expectations, and give up the need to know what happens tomorrow.

I really always expected to somebody to make me happy and I don't think you can really enter into a relationship until you are happy.

I have a very low level of recognition, which is fine by me.

If there is no blind hope, there is also no disappointment. If one knows that everything is impermanent, one does not grasp, and if one does not grasp, one will not think in terms of having or lacking, and therefore one lives fully.

There will be times, for example, when you feel you are faking it. However hard you try genuinely to practice, it just doesn't feel right. And on the rare occasions it does feel authentic, the sensation is over almost before it began. So, try to be content with your practice, whatever it feels like, even when you are doing little more than paying it lip service, because at least you are making an effort.

And if insight were sufficient, if the inner life were the whole of life, their happiness has been assured.

Poor girl? I fail to understand the point of that remark. I think myself a very fortunate girl, I assure you. I'm thoroughly happy, and having a splendid time. Pray don't waste time mourning over me. There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.

When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.

The adventure is over. Everything gets over, and nothing is ever enough. Except the part you carry with you. It's the same as going on a vacation. Some people spend all their time on a vacation taking pictures so that when they get home they can show their friends evidence that they had a good time. They don't pause to let the vacation enter inside of them and take that home.

If you want to live where people are not afraid of mice, you must give up living in palaces.

It is not mysterious to be home on a Saturday night, reading a novel in a pile of smelly golden retrievers.

Just think before you complain about stuff other people would love to have.

It's joy,' said Tipper. 'I aim to live a joyful life, Carrie. And I think you should, too. I think maybe you've lost track of that, a little.