Quotes About Contentment

Live a life of gratitude, giving thanks in all circumstances.

Life has only gotten better personally for me as I've gotten older. I mean, being young was such a gross waste of time. I was just such a miserable, miserable person.

I just had a wonderful life, and I couldn't ask for anything else.

Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.

Real life is the life that's in you, not your circumstances, like where you live or what job you have or who you're in relationship with.

Reaching too deep into something not meant for you is full of pain. Figure out what you can have and work on that

I live a very nice life. I have a wonderful time. But it's not lived drawing on a full level. I'm relaxed, cool, and enjoying it.

I have a really beautiful life right now, so there is no reason to be hostile. I'm a husband, a father and a man who tries to do the right thing in life and in my work.

I would have been very happy just working from job to job, paying my rent one movie at a time. I never wanted to be this famous. I never imagined this life for myself.

The loving parts of your personality have no trouble loving. That is all they do. You experience the loving parts of as gratitude, appreciation, caring, patience, contentment and awe of life.

...thinking all this maximalism would somehow generate happiness?

I spend most of my time at the ranch with my family, and enjoy life - watch the sun come up, watch it go down, thank God for another day, and just be happy.

I'm learning simplicity and how to wear my body. I'm enjoying life and trying to be the best me.

I am a happy person and I choose to be a positive person. I think some people think my life has been tragic and there have been these horrible dramas but things really have been, and are, fine.

I have a very happy marriage and friends who keep my feet on the ground. But looking for satisfaction in life is difficult. Maybe being happy is as simple as not being unhappy.

It's funny, but you get to a time in your life when you think you have all the friends you will ever have.

I'm just a regular person who believes life is simple, and I like a simple life.

I retire with a smile on my face, in good health, and ready to spend autumns at my kids' games instead of my own. I'm excited to start the next chapter of my life.

'Cars' was about Lightning McQueen learning to slow down and to enjoy life. The journey is the reward.

I like food, like any other guy, but it is not the main thing in my life. I can do without it.

I am not good at noticing when I'm happy, except in retrospect.

I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy.

Anything was better than nothing. Half-full was better than empty. Ignorance was the lowest form of humiliation and suffering.

Pegging your contentment to the overall state of the world rather than of your own life: the basis of morality, or a sort of madness?