Quotes About Contentment

Don't miss all the beautiful colors of the rainbow looking for that pot of gold.

Better is the life of a poor man in a mean cottage, than delicate fare in another man's house.

Contentment is not the fulfillment of what you want, but the realization of how much you already have.

Happiness make you smile, Sorrow can crush you.

Money for the wise is a necessity of life, not a reason to live

Ubi bene ibi patria [Where one is happy, there's one's homeland].

Vous me dégoûtez tous avec votre bonheur ! Avec votre vie qu'il faut aimer coûte que coûte… Moi, je veux tout, tout de suite, et que ce soit entier, ou alors je refuse! Je ne veux pas être modeste , moi, et de me contenter d'un petit morceau, si j'ai été bien sage.

Well-fed and liquored, I responded with ardour.

The world is right because I feel good. p. 83, Awareness, copyright 1990

The secret is to renounce nothing, cling to nothing, enjoy everything and allow it to pass, to flow.

People don't really want to grow up, people don't really want to change, people don't really want to be happy. As someone so wisely said to me, "Don't try to make them happy, you'll only get in trouble. Don't try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it irritates the pig.

What makes you happy or unhappy is not the world and the people around you, but the thinking in your head. As well

The root of evil is within you. As you begin to understand this, you stop making demands on yourself, you stop having expectations of yourself, you stop pushing yourself and you understand. Nourish yourself on wholesome food, good wholesome food. I'm not talking about actual food, I'm talking about sunsets, about nature, about a good movie, about a good book, about enjoyable work, about good company, and hopefully you will break your addictions to those other feelings.

You want to hope for something better than what you have right now, don't you? Otherwise you wouldn't be hoping. But then, you forget that you have it all right now anyway, and you don't know it. Why not concentrate on the now instead of hoping for better times in the future? Why not understand the now instead of forgetting it and hoping for the future? Isn't the future just another trap?

Life is a banquet. And the tragedy is that most people are starving to death.

You're never so ready to forget yourself as when you are happy.

And you will understand how true it is that everyone who stops clinging to brothers or sisters, father, mother or children, land or houses Ã¢â'¬Â¦ is repaid a hundred times over and gains eternal life.

You want the little things that society has falsely taught you are essential for happiness. You want that.

The orchestra is within you and you carry it with you wherever you go. The things and people outside you merely determine what particular melody the orchestra will play. And when there is no one or nothing that has your attention the orchestra will play a music of its own; it needs no outside stimulation. You now carry in your heart a happiness that nothing outside of you can put there, and nothing can take away.

You will never live until you stop clinging to life. Let go. When you cling, happiness dies. If your happiness depends on anyone or anything, that's not happiness.

You don't have to do anything to acquire happiness. The great Meister Eckhart said very beautifully, "God is not attained by a process of addition to anything in the soul, but by a process of subtraction." You don't do anything to be free, you drop something. Then you're free.

When you're living for nothing, you've got all your skills, you've got all your energy, you're relaxed, and you don't care. It doesn't matter to you whether you win or lose. Now there's human living for you. That's what life is all about.

In order to be genuinely happy there is one and only one thing you need to do: get deprogrammed, get rid of those attachments.

To acquire happiness you don't have to do anything, because happiness cannot be acquired. Does anybody know why? Because we have it already.