Quotes About Contentment

A note of caution: We can never achieve goals that envy sets for us. Looking at your friends and wishing you had what they had is a waste of precious energy. Because we are all unique, what makes another happy may do the opposite for you. That's why advice is nice but often disappointing when heeded.

I think you've got to play the hand that you're dealt and stop wishing for another hand.

I remember watching somebody called Esmee Denters doing covers that were really popular and wishing that was me. But I'm glad it wasn't. Things have worked out OK.

If you're 50, you're never going to be 50 ever again, so enjoy being 50. If you sit through the year wishing you were younger, before you know it, it's going to be over, and you're going to be 51.

There's nothing I would do differently, no wishing I had done this or done that.

The most healthy way to be creative is to work with what you have and not sit around wishing you had something different.

When you stop searching, wanting and wishing things - only then they start appearing.

Without wishing to sound pretentious, my basic standard of happiness is to do with being who I am.

Don't spend time wishing your life away, waiting for things to be perfect.

Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach.

Happiness is your own treasure because it lies within you.

The secret to a happy marriage is if you can be at peace with someone within four walls, if you are content because the one you love is near to you, either upstairs or downstairs, or in the same room, and you feel that warmth that you don't find very often, then that is what love is all about.

What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.

Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don't recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.

Genuine happiness comes from within, and often it comes in spontaneous feelings of joy.

I spend my weekends sleeping and watching DVDs, and eating at restaurants within a 2-block radius of my apartment.

Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.

Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with.

Love means that everything is right with the world. Love and only love. Love means that you are content within your own heart and in the presence of the person that you love, who fills your day and makes you stronger and wiser, and gives you the confidence to go out into the world. Love is just the most beautiful, joyous feeling.

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

The mantra that you're given in Transcendental Meditation you keep to yourself. The reason being, true happiness is not out there, true happiness lies within.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

If there is any one thing that will bring peace and contentment into the human heart, and into the family, it is to live within our means.

To me, it's that incredible sense of belonging and peace within your own self and heart that really is joy.