Quotes About Contentment

There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by. A life of good days lived in the senses is not enough. The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less; time is ample and its passage sweet.

Frances is feeling a familiar yet unnameably old feeling. One she hadn't known was ever hers to forget. Happiness.

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He doesn't yearn for a better, different life than the one he has - because he knows he's got a home in this one.

Life is good. I like my job.

You don't say, 'I've done it!' You come, with a kind of horrible desperation, to realize that this will do.

You got used to a bit of peace and you got used to a bit of extra pretty polly.

Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me happy; my happiness does not lie in you. If you were to leave me, I will not feel sorry for myself; I enjoy your company immensely, but I do not cling.

The philosopher Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus , who lived comfortably by flattering the king. Said Aristippus , ' If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils .' Said [author:Diogenes|3213618, 'Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.

Some of the best of us are quite unambitious.

You can be rich by having more than you need, or by needing less than you have. —JIM MOTT

You can be rich by having more than you need, or by needing less than you have.

Which do you tend to focus on more—what you have or what's missing from your life?

Sir John Templeton said, "If you've got a billion dollars and you're ungrateful, you're a poor man. If you have very little but you're grateful for what you have, you're truly rich.

If everything's given, you won't hunger

We forget what we already have, don

And always remember the ultimate truth: life is not about money, it's about emotion.

The wealthiest person on earth is one who appreciates.

when you're grateful, there is no anger. Sir

What can you be grateful for today? Who

What you get will never make you happy; who you become will make you very happy or very sad." If each day you make just a little progress, you will feel the joy that comes with personal growth. And that leads to perhaps one of the most important lessons I have learned about big goals and achievement.

If you've got a billion dollars and you're ungrateful, you're a poor man. If you have very little but you're grateful for what you have, you're truly rich.

Rest and quiet are the comforts of those who have been content to remain in obscurity.

What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?