Quotes About Contentment

For if it did, if we could answer their love not with gratitude but with equal love, life would lose much of its pathos and much of its squalor, and we might be wonderfully happy.

People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be - whether they will admit that or not.

Everything that's really worthwhile in life came to us free; our mind, our soul, our body, our hopes, our dreams, our ambitions, our intelligence, our love of family and children and friends. All these priceless possessions are free, but the things that cost us money are actually very cheap and can be replaced at any time.

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future.

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.

Let your heart give you joy in all the days of your life.

Ustvari, svi mi živimo živote koje smo uspjeli ostvariti....kojih smo se manje bojali. Živote kojima smo bili zadovoljni.

Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.

Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.

You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.

If you have a boat and a happy marriage, you don't need another thing.

The Sherpas were such a hard-working, good-natured group. Sometimes I thought they'd been born with permanent smiles. Ang Tsering explained their life in simple terms. "Sherpas have no money, but we need no money. We never rich, but life is good to us.

Never confuse having a career with having a life

Smile is best the weapon to accomplish happiness

It doesn't matter, because it just doesn't matter.

And I never started to plow in my life That some one did not stop in the road And take me away to a dance or picnic. I ended up with forty acres; I ended up with a broken fiddle— And a broken laugh, and a thousand memories, And not a single regret.

The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.

I'm not sad about any of my life. It's so unconventional. It doesn't look anything like I thought it would.

Too much of anything is tiresome. Even the best things.

The Greeks were realists. They saw the beauty of common things and were content with it.

What a rich phrase. You could live a life on the income it yielded.

People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it

I often advise young brides who are traveling during their first weeks or months of marriage to start "homemaking" in a hotel, even if they are there for only a night, rather than groaning about having to "wait so long to have a home". How? ...Your own cloth, your own candlestick, just one rose or daffodil is enough to make a difference... You will be surprised how much difference it makes to have done something to make a room your home, even for one night.

If you have two loves of bread, sell one and buy a lily. The bread becomes a different thing when eaten at a table with the lily in the center.