Quotes About Contentment

You've learned the secret of happiness.

It wouldn't do for us to have all our dreams fulfilled, we would be as good as dead if we had nothing left to dream about.

To know God and not oneself to be God, to know blessedness and not oneself to enjoy it, is a state of disunity or unhappiness.

Tell them I've had a wonderful life.

The world of the happy man is a different one from that of the unhappy man.

Die Welt des Glücklichen ist eine andere als die des Unglücklichen.

The best for me, perhaps, would be if I could lie down one evening and not wake up again.

My life consists in my being content to accept many things.

E' questione di misura, contentarsi. Uno si contenta di tanto, (fa segno col pollice sul mignolo) un altro ha tutto e non se ne contenta.

se un rosignolo dà via le penne della coda, può dire: mi resta il dono del canto; ma se le fate dar via a un pavone, le penne della coda, che gli resta?

Dear friends and family, This year we did not get engaged. We acquired no pet, and we did not produce a child. We did not buy a car or house. We did not take the package deal. We did not join the club. We did not order the special. We never multiplied our miles. We had some arguments, that's true. There was so much we did not see. We did not know. We did not understand. At times we drank heavily. Happy holidays to all! xoo, Lane and Gil.

She did not find these riches (of fulfillment). They were a gift from God.

If you want to be happy, never ask for the gift of discernment.

People would rather live in homes regardless of its grayness. There is no place like home.

Non importa quanto squallide e grigie siano le nostre case; noi gente di carne e ossa preferiamo vivere lì piuttosto che in qualunque altro paese, per quanto bello possa essere. Non c'è niente di meglio della propria casa.

There will always be people who are better off or who get good jobs or who marry well- whatever that means. We should be happy with what we've got.

Ignorance was a comfortable nest to linger in, in the right sort of circumstances.

Many people are happy with things as they are. They are comfortable with what they already know. But if I didn't move outside my comfort level, how would I ever experience anything new, how would I ever learn to see or explore? I believe that each of us has a purpose for being here, that we have certain gifts and certain challenges we need to learn from and fulfill for our lives to have meaning and richness.

Money is not the secret to happiness

One piece of cake in your life is better than never having any.

She'd found it was always best to live in the here and now rather than waste time with past events or what she couldn't have and what could have been. Mind you, living in the here and now wasn't always easy, but she did her best.

Not reaching back for what was lost in my yesterdays. And not reaching for what I hope will be in my tomorrow. But living fully with what is right in front of me. And truly seeing the gift of this moment.

Instead of always looking to get fulfillment from my loved ones and the other blessings in my life, I can simply enjoy them for what they are.

Why invite sorrow? Life is long enough to contain enough without asking for more.