Quotes About Contentment

All good things have come to me since I no longer seek them for myself. -Saint John of the Cross

Man cannot live without joy. That is why one deprived of spiritual joys goes over to carnal pleasures.

Happiness is not necessarily how many things we have—happiness is the ability to share what we have with others.

True happiness is always available to us, but first we have to create the environment for it to flourish.

Meditate with delight and run with joy.

We already have what we need—the opportunity to weave the tapestry of happiness every day with the needle and thread of our own mind.

In my constant travels, from the highland meadows of Tibet to the tropical rain forest of Brazil to the busy streets of Hong Kong, I've learned that you have to be content wherever you are. Otherwise, traveling is exhausting, because you're always thinking that the next place will be better.

Happiness Begin with Success

I have always told my children that they might as well decide to embrace God's will for their lives right where they are and engage in the present moment with as much faith and wisdom and skill as they can, because their circumstances are not going to miraculously change.

As long as we believe we can control life by trying, controlling, manipulating, putting pressure on life, we will live in constant exhaustion. We learn daily of our need for His Spirit to live through us because we are inadequate in ourselves. We learn to give up expectations that life will ever be perfect and to be content in the midst of the chaos.

I might not be famous one day. But I'd still be happy.

LIFE SHOULD BE ENJOYED UPTO ITS EXTENT.

Outer beauty won't remain forever but inner beauty does. Don't run after outer beauty. Because of it can be a huge mistake when you chose outer beauty instead of inner beauty. And that will leave you with regression. Only try to know and get the inner beauty of somebody or something. It will bring peace inside of you.

There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.

There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.

To cultivate love, or whole-soul-fulness, we must resist the temptation to be upwardly mobile, to be always on the move, to pull up our roots and fly to the mythic kingdom of Elsewhere.

If the only prayer you said in your whole life was "thank you," that would be sufficient. —MEISTER ECKHART

Do not try to be the best, be happy of who you are.

you, Aunt Helga? Are you in hell?" Helga appeared to consider the question seriously, but when her answer came it was with a dismissive gesture. "Oh, no, honey. I'm all right. I'd rather still be at home, but then I'd be completely dependent on people who have their own lives to lead, and that's not very agreeable, either. I don't like it, but I can't say I don't belong here. It's just another thing to make the best of.

neglected and betrayed you, but the animal inside you needed the animal inside them. If only, Rachel thought, you could be content with the animal part. Sometimes it was a burden to be human.

Sometimes I think that all anyone needs in life is lots of popcorn and a few Lovelies

We've been fogged in for five days. The fog makes me both love and hate the weather. I hate it because it brings me down, but I love it because if the foul state continues I won't have to do anything important with my life, and in many ways I am quite happy in that knowledge.

Everyone wants to look their best, everyone has dreams of wanting to look like something else. But we are who we are.

The thing with me is, if I wake up one morning and I'm not happy working as an actress, I'll stop. It's not something I have to do. It's not a vocation.