Quotes About Contentment

Nous ne faisions rien de mal cet après-midi-là. Et c'est cela à mon avis le seul sens à donner à sa vie: trouver son bonheur sans augmenter la douleur du monde.

Si on attend tout de lui, on se contente finalement de peu. La moindre surprise est accueillie comme un miracle.

Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Even the grandest lives come down to a few people and places. Loved ones, your daily work, your neighborhood. I don't mean that in a belittling way. I've been realizing how complete our lives can be with just the few people and activities you most love.

Your problem is that you're Russian - you don't know how to be happy.

She senses, for the first time, how far away one can be from one's own life, how contentedly distant. The gaping enormity of the universe, its endless possibility… She feels it, an aura, an inkling - the illusion of absolute freedom.

One needed, she saw now, only a few belongings, just as one needed only a few close friends, and a single passion - it need not be a person, neccissarily.

Sometimes you can only have something you like for a short time, and after that you just have to be happy to have had it when you did, and enjoy the memory of it.

Not that I was ever in need, for I have learned how to be content with whatever I have. I know how to live on almost nothing or with everything. I have learned the secret of living in every situation, whether it is with a full stomach or empty, with plenty or little. Philippians 4:11–12, NLT

Poise can seem like a superficial posture, almost like one is acting as if everything is okay when things really aren't. I believe true poise goes much deeper and is a reflection of what we really believe inside of us. Paul's confidence in the goodness of God was so strong and sure that not even an empty belly threw him off his game. He was content whatever. I know my God is good, and I want to show that to the world, whatever.

Always be full of joy in the Lord. I say it again—rejoice! Philippians 4:4, NLT

I never have planned a whole lot of future. It's one day at a time.

We have love, and that's all we need, right Papa?

I want to tell my jokes. I want to have time with my children. I want to entertain people. And at one point, I'll walk away from show business. But I don't want to walk away empty-handed.

They say," Ogi remarked, " that happiness is pretending you always wanted what you're getting.

Después de todo, está bien tener dinero mientras el dinero no le tenga a usted.

I cannot tell you how many quiet mornings I have spent sitting around hotel rooms and furnished apartments in the United States and Mexico, smoking cigarettes, plunking the guitar, and watching Perry Mason --telling myself, "Well, at least I don't have a day job. And there is nothing wrong with that. I am not guilty of anything. Perry would see that in a minute.

They loved. They had friends. They were alive. They didn't see the world, but they saw their world--which maybe is better than seeing the world.

What in the world would I sing for if I had it all?

Measure your wealth not by the things you have, but by the things for which you would not take money.

So content people may not have the best of everything, but they make the best of everything. That is who you want your children to be.

Fun can be bought with money, but happiness cannot.

In our National Study of Millionaires, we found that 67% have a paid-off home, and it took them an average of 11.2 years to pay it off. Take that in for a moment: Millionaires don't spend thirty years paying off their house. They pay it off in roughly ten years. They're also not living in a 10,000 square foot mansion. They live, on average, in a 2,600 square foot home they've been in an average of seventeen years.

The love of money, not money, is root of all evil.