Quotes About Contentment

Success is not defined by status, money, education, career or another person but rather by the level of peace that I have within myself.

Success can not be measured in dollars and cents.

When you are successful every day, success loses its value.

The greatest measure of success is the amount of joy you experience.

How can they say my life isn't a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own

Human sympathy has its limits, and we were contented to let all their tragic arguments fade with the city lights behind.

Well, then, what's the plan now? You can't stay here forever.'My plan was indeed to stay there forever.

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

I know what I can know, and am not troubled about what I cannot know.

Retirement: It's nice to get out of the rat race, but you have to learn to get along with less cheese.

(I was) my own teacher and pupil, and thanks to the efforts of both, they were not discontented with each other.

The average mind is easily content with inherited and acquired things, or with the dicta of parents and teachers, because it is much easier to imitate than to create.

In the past perhaps I would have declined, but I now recalled the Poet's dictum—"To stay is to be nowhere"—and I was happy to accept.

I wasn't jealous and I wasn't resentful. Maybe it's the people who are the least loved, provided they're not envious or bitter, who find the most love in themselves to give to others. Don't you think?

Y nos han acostumbrado a no alegrarnos de lo que tenemos, sino a alegrarnos única y exclusivamente de lo que poseemos nosotros y no tienen los demás. Y aún peor, nos han acostumbrado desde pequeños a mantener todo tipo de ideas venenosas que empiezan siempre por las palabras

There is much happiness to be found in acceptance

The truth is I'm not good at enjoying life.

My dogs can't do anything--and what a relief. I don't make any demands of them, and I don't try to shape them or their future. For the most part, I trust them to make the right choices for themselves. I always look forward to seeing them, and I love just watching them sleep. What a great relationship.

When you discover something long after others have known it, there is a heady contentment that comes.

There are proponents of New Year's Eve, and there are proponents of regular Tuesday nights. I am one of the latter, much happier residing in the wake of the mundane.

HAPPINESS I'm turning left. Look, everyone, my blinker is on, and I'm turning left. I am so happy to be alive, driving along, making a left turn. I'm serious. I am doing exactly what I want to be doing at this moment: existing on a Tuesday, going about my business, on my way somewhere, turning left. There is nothing disconcerting or unpleasant or unfortunate about this moment. It is exceptionally nice, plain, and perfect.

I love and am loved, fully and freely, nothing expected, more than enough received.

If I look upon my whole life, I cannot think of another time when I felt more comfortable: when I had no worries, fears, or desires, when my life seemed as soft and lovely as lying inside a cocoon of rose silk.