Quotes About Contentment

I don't regret anything I've ever done; as long as I enjoyed it at the time

A time will come when you will find that in gaining a brief joy you have lost your peace forever.

Only a man who lives not in time but in the present is happy.

there comes a time when ambition ceases to burn, or romance to stir, and the highest cry of the human heart is for peace.

Happiness is simply a state of mind in which our thinking is pleasant a good share of the time.

Thanksgiving is a time to reflect on the many things we have to be thankful for, not so we feel guilty about what we have that others don't, but to be genuinely grateful for our blessings.

I don't know why it is that I have always been happier thinking of somewhere I have been or wanted to go, than where I am at the time. I find it difficult to be happy in the present.

There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

The time-honored bread-sauce of the happy ending.

Youth eats all the sugared fancy cakes and regards them as its daily bread. But there'll come a time when you'll start asking just for a crust.

Use your time, energy and talents to do the best you can right now. Spend no time wishing it were better

Only a fool expects to be happy all the time.

Cats are a tonic, they are a laugh, they are a cuddle, they are at least pretty just about all of the time and beautiful some of the time.

I've bought DBSK's CD and every time I listen to their songs I feel very good.

I'm trying to be slightly happier with myself. No one really wants to be miserable all the time.

One can get just as much exultation in losing oneself in a little thing as in a big thing. It is nice to think how one can be recklessly lost in a daisy.

Why do people spend their time being sad when they could be happy?

We've just learned how to balance ourselves a little better so that we're happier way more of the time than not, and, you know, being happy is a radical and desirable act if you ask me.

Why think of liberation at some future time? Liberation is in the little things, here and now.

It was as though all my hostilities, anxieties, and conflicts were in one ball that was flying away into space, farther from me all the time, leaving me content with myself

Our misery is that we thirst so little for these sublime things, and so much for the mocking trifles of time and space.

The '50s was a pretty wonderful time for people, it was hopeful.

We live one day at a time and scratch where it itches.