Quotes About Contentment

They know where happiness lies, not in a cave or a country, but in love and the freedom to give and take what has been there all along.

Free time was the most precious time, when you should be doing what you loved, or at least slowing down enough to remember what made your life worthwhile and happy.

The best life you can have as you get into old age is good food, good teeth to eat it with, and few worries when you go to bed at night.

I was greedy, she warned, and could not fill my heart with enough pleasure, my stomach with enough contentment, my body with enough sleep. I was like a rice basket with a rat hole at the bottom, and thus could not be satisfied and overflow, nor could I be filled. I would never know the full depth and breadth of love, beauty, or happiness. She said it like a curse.

And I remembered reading an article about baby boomers, how we expect the best and when we get it we worry that maybe we should have expected more, because it's all diminishing returns after a certain age.

If I stopped running and stood still, I would be accepting that what I had was all I would ever have. And then I would no longer be lost, because there would nowhere else to go

knowing I had finally arrived where my life said I belonged.

This Shanghai was not a place but a feeling of contentment. I was returning with myself whole and unbroken—limbs, mind, and spirit. I had discarded pride

And once you reached the top, you would be able to see everything and feel such happiness it would be enough to never have worries in your life ever again.

The hunger in our hearts was instantly filled.

ethnicity? And I remembered reading an article about baby boomers, how we expect the best and when we get it we worry that maybe we should have expected more, because it's all diminishing returns after a certain age.

When there is great suffering, he said, everyone struggles the same. But when there is peace, no one wants to be the same. The rich no longer share. The less rich envy and steal.

When what you have is more than enough, you're on the edge of impeccability.

Las personas que tienen una religión deberían de estar contentas, porque no a todos les es dado creer en cosas sobrenaturales.

My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can't be loved as I am.

There is a perfection in everything that cannot be owned.

Pleasure is an attitude, not a person or place.   —Diary 6, pg. 52

Fools compare... the wise enjoy.

Why go to Tahiti or Bali? Only sad, defeated people do that.

happiness is something from which fever is absent.

Što da radim sa svojom sre?om? Kako da je sa?uvam, sakrijem, zakopam nekamo gdje ne nikad ne?u izgubiti? Želim se spustiti na koljena i pustiti da pada po meni poput kiše, skupiti je u ?ipku i svilu te je ponovo stisnuti uza se.

All that is best for us comes of itself into our hands-but if we strive to overtake it, it perpetually eludes us.

The grass is always greener on the hand that feeds.

Money gives you independence; but when you start chasing it, it is never enough.