Quotes About Contentment

perhaps that's the secret. Perhaps what people should really ask is, "are you content?" It's about getting in touch with reality. About balancing aspirations and actuality.

In Zen, poverty is voluntary, and considered not really as poverty so much as simplicity, freedom, unclutteredness.

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.

I wish people could acheive what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that thats not really what happiness is.

I was motivated by just thinking that if you had all this external success that everyone would love you and everything would be peaceful and wonderful.

Peace of mind for five minutes, that's what I crave.

I ought to have more love before I die. I've not had enough.

Sometimes all you need is to climb a simple hill, to spend time staring at an empty horizon, to jump into a cold river or sleep under the stars, or perhaps share a whisky at a small country inn in order to remind yourself what matters most to you in life.

I realise how pleasant life can be if I stop thinking about it. It is much simpler to exist than to live.

I wish to have both things in my life: adventure and comfort.

I take each day as it comes. I'd rather take good memories from one world than fret about the thousand I'll never see.

I don't know about you, but I think blankets are the best, especially your own personal blanket.

My greatest passion is my personal life.

If you're with someone who makes you happy in your personal life, then you're happy with where you're at.

I don't really talk too much about my personal life, but I'm happy.

Everything has gone pretty fluidly in my personal life, so I think that certainly helps.

I'm never entirely happy. That's just part of my personality, and I just have to accept that.

I enjoyed in every way my 12 years of playing Archie, and I wasn't personally sad about finishing a long job.

Well I don't know that I'm okay any more than anyone else is okay, I lead a happy life and a very full one - I have a happy marriage and my kids are all cheerful, and no one is finding fault with me, personally.

But happiness is no respecter of persons.

Happiness is no respecter of persons.

My ideal evening is to have dinner with one person or a few persons, and then be in bed by 11.

There's an easygoing nature that comes with a perspective of things that aren't as important as we make them sometimes.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.