Quotes About Contentment

You know, I actually sort of enjoy my life. I know I shouldn't. It could stand a lot of improvement. But maybe it's the feeling you have that makes a life bad. Or makes it all right enough most of the time.

The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.

That sound of settling into the sheets and the covers has to be one of the best things in the world. Sleep is a mercy. You can feel it coming on, like being swept up in something. She

As you read this, I hope you will understand that when I speak of the long night that preceded these days of my happiness, I do not remember grief and loneliness so much as I do peace and comfort—grief, but never without comfort; loneliness, but never without peace. Almost never.

I do hope to die with a quiet heart . I know that may not be realistic.

Tant que tu ne veux pas ce dont tu n'as pas besoin, tout ira bien. Tant que tu ne veux pas ce que tu ne peux pas obtenir.

if I can die saying, "Life is so beautiful," then nothing else is important.

Life is so beautiful

Es r?kojos k? man ir vislab?k. Un vislab?k ir b?t vienk?ršam. Pavisam, pavisam vienk?ršam. Un, kad vajag ko ?pašu, tam j?b?t pavisam, pavisam ?pašam.

Aunque dicen que sólo los imbéciles son felices, confieso que me sentía feliz.

Secretul fericirii, sau cel pu?in al lini?tii, e s? ?tii s? despar?i sexul de iubire. ?i, dac? e posibil, s? elimini iubirea romantic? din via?a ta, c?ci ea te face s? suferi.

Maar wie maakte zich druk om geld als je het afwoog tegen geluk?

Solo un idiota puede ser totalmente feliz.

A real life doesn't mean getting what you want; the achievement, the privilege, too is knowing what you love.

It's hard, in America, not to equate 'happiness' with 'things'.

To be next to her was to have everything.

Prosperity consists of two things: tea after a meal, and a cigarette after tea.

Third: live together as long as you feel truly happy. Life is too short to be lived badly.

The smallest pleasure, like a mouthful of canned fruit or the chance to bathe in an ice-cold river, was a luxury, something to be savored.

Simplicity is something more, something other than just doing without or doing it yourself. Its essence is neither forsaking nor striving. Its essence, rather, is listening: What has God put in your heart? Simplicity is, once having discerned that, being content with it. Simplifying it further: simplicity is being content with God.

Job learned about the vanity of this world by losing it all; the Teacher {Qoheleth} saw it by having it all. (The Message of the Old Testament, p. 536)

Sometimes we're so focused on our desired blessings that we fail to stop and thank God by remembering the blessings we already have in Christ.

The ability to see things the way they are, not to expect constant gratification but to understand that all things are limited, is what allows for personal growth.

The secret of contentment lay in ignoring many things completely.