Quotes About Contentment

A pobreza é um bem que encerra todos os bens do mundo. É uma grande soberania; confirmo que se assenhoreia de todos os bens quem nenhum caso faz de os deixar.

I was smiling yesterday,I am smiling today and I will smile tomorrow.Simply because life is too short to cry for anything.

but I am not someone who likes to wound rather I have a quiet mind

I care for neither honey nor the honey bee

I started thinking about joy. Everything in our society is so purposeful. Let's bring joy back to the experience.

She confessed once in a television interview that she would rather "weep in a Rolls-Royce than be happy on a bicycle.

Once you had rent and food covered, all the money in the world couldn't bring you what mattered. But it sure as hell could make life without it easier.

Because I am exactly where I should be, doing exactly what I should be doing. That is peace. Eat.

No one worth possessing Can be quite possessed.

No one worth possessing can quite be possessed

No one worth possessing Can be quite possessed; Lay that on your heart, My young angry dear; This truth, this hard and precious stone, Lay it on your hot cheek, Let it hide your tear. Hold it like a crystal When you are alone And gaze in the depths of the icy stone. Long, look long and you will be blessed: No one worth possessing Can be quite possessed.

Enough It is enough for me by day To walk the same bright earth with him; Enough that over us by night The same great roof of stars is dim. I do not hope to bind the wind Or set a fetter on the sea -- It is enough to feel his love Blow by like music over me.

I have no riches but my thoughts, Yet these are wealth enough for me

Spend all you have for loveliness, Buy it and never count the cost; For one white singing hour of peace Count many a year of strife well lost, And for a breath of ecstasy Give all you have been, or could be.

I Have Loved Hours at Sea I have loved hours at sea, gray cities, The fragile secret of a flower, Music, the making of a poem That gave me heaven for an hour; First stars above a snowy hill, Voices of people kindly and wise, And the great look of love, long hidden, Found at last in meeting eyes. I have loved much and been loved deeply— Oh when my spirit's fire burns low, Leave me the darkness and the stillness, I shall be tired and glad to go.

When I am all alone Envy me most, Then my thoughts flutter round me In a glimmering host; Some dressed in silver, Some dressed in white, Each like a taper Blossoming light; Most of them merry, Some of them grave, Each of them lithe As willows that wave; Some bearing violets, Some bearing bay, One with a burning rose Hidden away– When I am all alone Envy me then, For I have better friends Than women and men.

Whatever we are waiting for - peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance - it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.

Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that at this moment, all you have is all you need.

Every time we remember to say thank you, we experience nothing less than heaven on earth.

Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.

I burn like a devil, and at the same time I am as happy as a god.

Forgettable is fine. I don't want fame; I want happy . . . . . . But I'll settle for content. I don't think that's so strange.

I find it hard to hate a man who brings you exactly what you didn't even know you craved.

If I'm not complaining, I'm not having a good time, hah hah!