Quotes About Contentment

Life's too short is repeated often enough to be a cliche, but this time it's true. You don't have enough time to be both unhappy and mediocre. It's not just pointless, it's painful. Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you ought to set up a life you don't need to escape from.

People settle. They settle for less than they are capable of.

For many of us, the happiest future is one that's precisely like the past, except a little better

Instead of wondering when you're next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life that you don't need to escape from.

Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you ought to set up a life you don't need to escape from.

We assume that what makes us comfortable also makes us safe.

Everyone wants something that they can't possibly have. And if they could have it, they'd discover that they didn't really want it all along.

You don't have enough time to be both unhappy and mediocre. It's not just pointless, it's painful. Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you ought to set up a life you don't need to escape from.

Settling is no fun. It's a malignant habit, a slippery slope that takes you to mediocrity.

161. Chop Wood and Carry Water Layman Pang, more than a thousand years ago, wrote: My daily activities are not unusual, I'm just naturally in harmony with them. Grasping nothing, discarding nothing . . . Drawing water and chopping wood.

We suffer a lot the few things we lack and we enjoy too little the many things we have.

Although Madeleine's happiness was palatable, Jack's was even more

your name repeats itself mantra-like in my head. At night I fall asleep clinging to the hope that you are happy and well...

Is there such a thing as being too happy?

It was much easier to expect nothing an be all right than to expect something and be disappointed.

I started thinking about life insurance and how nice it would be if you could get insurance that your life would be happy, and that everyone you knew could be happy, and they could all do what they really wanted to do, and they could all find the people they wanted to find.

The second jealousy is this: I am jealous that my mother had wanted more children. Wasn't I enough? When I walk in her moccasins, though, I say, If I were my mother, I might want more children--not because I don't love my Salamanca, but because I love her so much. I want more of these.

Tutto va Bene, All is Well.

But then: a pink nose tiny black paws and blinking sleepy eyes a small black fur ball not a BIG fat fur ball a kitten stumbling out of a basket and wobbling over to me and crawling up on my lap and licking my pajamas and I forgot that I hate cats as it crawled up onto my chest and purrrrrred and I was smiiiiiling all over the place.

Fretting about time's passing will not slow it down one whit.

Desire- grasping, clinging, greed, attachment - is a state of mind that defines what we think we need in order to be happy. We project all of our hopes and dreams of fulfillment onto some object of our attention. This may be a certain activity or outcome, a particular thing or person. Deluded by our temporary enchantment, we view the world with tunnel vision. That object, and that alone, will make us happy.

While happiness is an end in itself, it is also the state of mind we can have right now.

Being happy at work is possible for all of us, anytime & anywhere, with open eyes and a caring heart

Mindfulness helps us to set boundaries by revealing what makes us unhappy & what brings us peace.