Quotes About Contentment

But I do know focusing on the exterior doesn't make me happy. If I want peace and serenity, it won't be reached by getting thinner or fatter.

I really don't think I need buns of steel. I'd be happy with buns of cinnamon.

My life is perfect even when it's not.

The thing everyone should realize is that the key to happiness is being happy for yourself and yourself.

To me, beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin.

Don't Worry, Be Happy

Do things that make you happy within the confines of the legal system.

I really don't think I need buns of steel. I'd be happy with buns of cinnamon.

The domestic cat is a bit of a contradiction. It freely accepts human friendship while never allowing even the most contented life to dim its sense of who it is and what it is capable of.

Envy is the offspring of pride,

Riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away.

By resting content with small blessings, we disqualify ourselves for receiving the Spirit in ... unlimited fullness. We

la verdadera felicidad se encuentra, no en dar rienda suelta al orgullo y al lujo, sino en la comunión con Dios

Everything in the world had happened to them and kept on happening. They didn't care. They liked it that way.

Most women want their youth back again; but I wouldn't have mine back at any price. The worst years of my life are behind me, and my best ones ahead.

it is good for a man to do right, and to leave happiness to take care of itself...

Her life, she knew, was becoming simplified into an unbreakable chain of habits, a series of orderly actions at regular hours. Vaguely, she thought of herself as a happy woman; yet she was aware that this monotony of contentment had no relation to what she had called happiness in her youth. It was better perhaps; it was certainly as good; but it measured all the difference between youth and maturity.

He who demands little gets it.

Grandpa says we've got everything to make us happy but happiness.

Prosperity doesn't always mean having what you want, but having what is needed when it is needed."1

No matter how proficient we are at what we do, most of us are able to find a way to draw comparisons with some ideal or existing yardstick that keeps us from recognizing the value of what we are doing.

i don't want to hate the president i don't want to go to harvard i don't want to win the pulitzer prize i just want to sit in my bathtub and think about relationships i will never have with people i will never meet and then go lay in my bed with a magnifying glass and count all the stiches in my sheets until i fall asleep and wake up to repeat again.

Richard knew he was fighting for his life, and he was terribly happy.

Happiness is not that easy to achieve, but having a handsome husband, a beautiful baby, and a great job helps.