Quotes About Contentment

Getting older doesn't bother me. When I was 30, I thought I should have achieved more, but you get more comfortable and think it's time to stop putting pressure on yourself.

I thought happiness came from achievement.

Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger; which he knows he was meant and made to do.

I do practice active gratitude. In my thoughts, actions words I am deeply grateful for what life has given me.

Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils.

An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.

I know you're always supposed to want more of everything. But in truth, I'm having a nice ebb and flow of being in my daughter's life every day and getting to keep my work life alive. I'm not nominated for ten thousand everythings every minute, but I am acting and telling stories I love.

And I don't think that success is going to destroy me at this point in my life, like I used to think.

And though you should live in a palace of gold, or sleep in a dried up ditch, You could never be as poor as the fairies are, and never as rich.

I've had an exciting time I married for love and got a little money along with it.

At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.

he thought that this was how he was going to live life from now on, savouring small pleasures and not looking beyond them for happiness that was more complete.

This is the state to which I shall aspire, where what is important to me is already mine.

I've already talked to my spirit animal. He's got nothing else to tell me. I'm 60, I've done it all. I'm totally over it.

The only thing I've ever wanted for my kids is that they're happy, and that they're out of the house. And I'll tell you what, happy ain't even that important.

I don't want to put a pause on the rest of my life I'm really enjoying getting older and the wisdom that comes from that.

Do you know what I wish at this moment?" she said. "I wish I had no money and no sex. They're both more trouble than they're worth to me.

A woman of about sixty answered the door. She had blue-white hair and a look on her face you don't see too often any more, the look of a woman who hasn't been disappointed: 'Yes

He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.

Se as plantas tivessem olhos, gosto e capacidade de julgar, cada planta diria que a sua flor é a mais bonita". Esse não é o nosso caso. Somos os únicos seres que não estão contentes com o que são. Queremos ser diferentes. Por isso estamos infelizes e doentes.

As árvores sabem que a única razão da sua vida é viver. Vivem para viver. Viver é bom. Raízes mergulhadas na terra, não fazem planos de viagem. Estão felizes onde estão. Enfrentam seca e chuva, noite e dia, chuva e calor, com silenciosa tranquilidade, sem acusar, sem lamentar. E morrem também tranquilas, sem medo. Ah! Como as pessoas seriam mais belas e felizes se fossem como as árvores.

A nossa vida começa justamente com o advento da inutilidade. Pois o momento da inutilidade marca o início da vida de gozo. Nada mais preciso fazer. Travei as batalhas que tinha de travar. Nada devo a ninguém. Estou livre agora para me entregar ao deleite.

a vida é brinquedo que para nada serve, a não ser para a alegria! Entregue-se, sem vergonha e sem sentimentos de culpa, às delícias do ócio. Aprenda a andar sem ter de chegar a lugar algum, simplesmente gozando o mundo que nos cerca! Faça o fantástico turismo gratuito dos livros.

Cheguei onde estou por caminhos que não planejei. É um lugar feliz com o qual nunca sonhei.