Quotes About Contentment

If we spend our time obsessing with the future or regretting the past, then we will never live. Tomorrow will always be tomorrow and yesterday cannot be changed.

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

By recollecting the pleasures I have had formerly, I renew them, I enjoy them a second time, while I laugh at the remembrance of troubles now past, and which I no longer feel.

Don't waste your time chasing butterflies. Mend your garden, and the butterflies will come.

The days were sunny, the nights were star-studded. Indeed married life was strawberries for breakfast and loving all the time.

Today is plenty; right now is enough. Tomorrow will come in good time. Until it does, live the depth of now.

I'm a millionaire, but I cut the grass. And each time I cut it, it's my grass. And that is satisfying.

I don't concern myself with award. I'd been to the party enough times to know it really didn't matter.

I don't think there's ever a time where I step back and say I wish I was something different. I'm doing what I love to do.

Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small sips, if you take your time. Reading is not an exception.

We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.

How good it is to be well-fed, healthy, and kind all at the same time.

Quit worrying about how everything is going to turn out. Live one day at a time; better yet, make the most of this moment.

Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don't notice whether it's passing quickly or slowly.

True luxury is being able to own your time - to be able to take a walk, sit on your porch, read the paper, not take the call, not be compelled by obligation.

Don't waste your time on jealousy.

Despite everything, I have few regrets. I have crammed a lot of living into my time.

Pleasure was the color of the time.

When we feel that old spirit of complaining start to bubble up in our hearts, we need to remind ourselves to take time to thank God for His blessings.

Count your blessings. Every time I am doing bad I count my blessings. And I always lose count. Try that sometime.

I don't want to extend my career for individual records. This is the time to go.

Sometimes it seems things go by too quickly. We are so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take the time to enjoy where we are.

I wish I could have known earlier that you have all the time you'll need right up to the day you die.

I did not know what it was to be happy for a whole day at a time, scarcely for an hour.