Quotes About Contentment

The first sure symptom of a mind in health Is rest of heart and pleasure felt at home.

I had looked for happiness in fast living, but it was not there. I tried to find it in money, but it was not there either.

All anyone can hope for is just a tiny bit of love, like a drop in a cup if you can get it, or a waterfall, a flood, if you can get that too.

MORAL: The grass is only greener when you're not caring for your own lawn.

A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.

The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life and the labors of life reduce themselves.

Eliminate the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.

Love is a fulfilment of life; without that, life is nothing.

Most of us are running after money, sex, and power. To some or full extent, bearing the burden of the stress and making the own life terrible.

No one can please all peoples since it stays beyond reality; however, feeling pleased with all peoples; indeed, it creates pleasure and satisfaction.

Sometimes some emptiness of life never fills.

Is that so? He who lives in the mountains years for the city, and the city-dweller would rather live in the mountains," the Abbot chuckled, "and nothing is ever to one's liking...

He used to say that a true r?nin did not seek fame or profit, did not curry favor with the powerful, did not attempt to use political power for his own ends, did not exempt himself from moral judgments. Rather he was as broad-minded as floating clouds, as quick to act as the rain and quite content in the midst of poverty. He never set himself any targets and never harbored any grudges.

I laugh at my ten-year pilgrimage— Wilted robe, tattered hat, knocking at Zen gates. In reality, the Buddha's Law is simple: Eat your rice, drink your tea, wear your clothes.

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

You know how you're always half hungry while in bed. Well this was like sleeping with a meal, a big fried meal, you have your arms around it.

Everything is okay. These will be very merry noodles.

With penetrating insight, the mystics will tell us that when we have a desire for a certain thing, a certain experience, and we fulfill that desire, the happiness we feel is not something given by that thing or experience; it is due to having no craving for a little while.

Let nothing upset you; Let nothing frighten you. Everything is changing; God alone is changeless. Patience attains the goal. Who has God lacks nothing; God alone fills every need. – Teresa of Avila Radiant

Let Nothing Upset You Let nothing upset you; Let nothing frighten you. Everything is changing; God alone is changeless. Patience attains the goal. Who has God lacks nothing; God alone fills every need. – Teresa of Avila

One advertisement proclaims, A flat stomach is beautiful! For me, a flat ego is beautiful.

All that you used to avoid will turn itself to great sweetness and exceeding joy.

Training the mind to be patient and calm under all circumstances, then, often begins with learning to wear our likes and dislikes loosely, casually, like a favorite old sweater.