Quotes About Contentment

Like somebody who was just happy because there was macaroni and cheese in the world.

The person who loses their ability to walk will care more about the brownies than about the walking. Because if they have lost the ability to walk, they have accepted the loss. Walking was then, brownies are now. You would be amazed by what you can give up, lose, or break and yet still be a person who gets happy over brownies. It only seems like I am kidding.

When you have a blueprint for what happiness is, lay it over your life and see what you need to change so the images are more aligned.

the one thing that will finally make you feel you aren't missing something essential, such as the point.

Some of the most relaxing weekends I have ever enjoyed were those I spent quietly with a sense of all work to date completed, and an absorbing mystery.

The truth is, honey, I've enjoyed my life. I've had a hell of a good time.

The truth is that the only time I'm happy is when I'm doing absolutely nothing. I don't understand people who like to work and talk about it like it was some sort of goddamn duty. Doing nothing feel like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.

If I had my life to live over again, I'd live it the same way. Maybe a few changes here or there, but nothing special. The truth is, honey, I've enjoyed my life. I've had a hell of a good time.

Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants.

He never felt lonliness except when he was happy.

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's value.

No happy person can be quite so impervious to pain (Gail Wynand to Dominique Francon)

Happiness is self-contained and self-sufficient. Happy men have no time and no use for you. Happy men are free men.

What are you really seeking?' 'Freedom – to want nothing, to expect nothing, to depend on nothing.

We do not know why, when we think of them, we feel all of a sudden that the earth is good and that it is not a burden to live.

What kind of a tragedy did you have in your childhood? Why, none at all. I had a wonderful childhood. Free and peaceful and not bothered too much by anybody. Well, yes, I did feel bored very often. But I'm used to that.

Happiness? But that is so middle-class. What is happiness? There are so many things in life so much more important than happiness.

he knew that what made him happy wasn't just having Cheese. He was happy when he wasn't being run by his fear.

Even before he found what he hoped would be a great supply of New Cheese, if ever, he knew that what made him happy wasn't just having Cheese. He was happy when he wasn't being run by his fear. He liked what he was doing now.

The Most Common Reason You Leave A Peak Too Soon Is Arrogance, Masquerading As Confidence. The Most Common Reason You Stay In A Valley Too Long Is Fear, Masquerading As Comfort.

For it is good to cleave to God, and to put our hopes in the Lord, so that, when we have exchanged this poor life for the kingdom of heaven, we may cry aloud: 'Whom have I in heaven but thee? There is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.' Assuredly, when we have found such wealth in heaven, we may well grieve to have sought after poor passing pleasures here on earth.

Thank God for the things that I do not own.

Trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.

The motto over Chaumont's door read, "Se sta bene non se muove," which a later American tenant translated, overly literally, as "If you stand well, stand still.