Quotes About Contentment

What he tells them is unexpected, counter-intuitive. In effect he says this: "You know what your parents suffered. You have heard about their slavery in Egypt. You yourselves have known what it is to wander in the wilderness without a home or shelter or security. You may think those were the greatest trials, but you are wrong. You are about to face a harder trial. The real test is security and contentment

Our contemporary consumer is constructed in the first-person singular: I want, I need, I must have. There are many things we can achieve in the first-person singular but one we cannot, namely, sim?a – because sim?a is the joy we share, the joy we have only because we share.

Peace comes when we see our reflection in the face of God and let go of the desire to be someone else.

I missed you even when I was with you. That's been my problem. I miss what I already have, and I surround myself with things that are missing.

It was one of those moments when a great Don't Care wave hits you, and you float off on it, head back, looking at the sky.

A warm feeling filled me. It was made of tea and biscuits and sudden gratitude.

It was one of those moments when a great Don't Care wave hits you, and you float off on it, head back, looking at the sky.

I won't quarrel with my bread and butter.

'Tis very warm weather when one's in bed.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived.

Sometimes, contentment is a matter of will. You have to look at what you have right in front of you, at what it could be, and stop measuring it against what you've lost. I know this to be wise and true, just as I know that pretty much no one can do it.

You learn not to think about what might have been, and to just appreciate what you have.

Here's what I think I'm having trouble with: this is what happiness is. When I was a kid, I thought I'd just get happier and happier as I got older, and have more things to be happy about. I based this theory on observation of select adults. The problem with my results is that I couldn't tell the difference then between happy and fake-happy. Now I know you pretend to be just frigging ecstatic over everything, maybe because you're so glad it's not worse.

We Burmese people are totally content,' he replied, hazing calmly into my eyes. 'Do you know why? Because we have nothing left. We have been squeezed and squeezed and squeezed until there is nothing left.

I don't have perfect teeth, I'm not stick thin. I want to be the person who feels great in her body and can say that she loves it and doesn't want to change anything.

no tengo una sensación de alivio, pero sí al menos

Come un artista il quale, pur consapevole del fatto che la sua carriera non è finita, che bisogna andare avanti, che niente è mai acquisito, sa di avere al suo attivo un'opera, almeno una, che nonostante tutto gli consente di dormire tranquillo, perché il futuro sarà quel che sarà ma per lui i giochi sono fatti e vinti.

vedremo la fecondità di tutte queste cose mediocri, dal punto di vista dell'eternità, quanto eravamo imbecilli a rifiutarle ad ogni costo e a desiderare che la vita si svolgesse nella sua piccola tranquilla felicità

If you are looking to outer, passing, mutable things for either happiness or security, you are not putting God first.

It was such a lovely day too, and the sky and sea were so blue. They sat eating and drinking, gazing out to sea, watching the waves break into spray over the rocks beyond the old wreck.

No vivas imaginando problemas que no han ocurrido ni van a suceder; disfruta del presente, la vida hay que aprovecharla, elige siempre poner en tu mente lo agradable en lugar de lo desagradable. Cuando aparezca un problema real, entonces simplemente ocúpate de el, pero no te pre-ocupes cuando todo está bien .

La felicidad es el estado natural del ser humano. Cuando el pensamiento está en sintonía con la vida, con lo natural, con el momento presente, no existe aburrimiento, sino satisfacción.

No vivas imaginando problemas que no han ocurrido ni van a suceder; disfruta del presente, la vida hay que aprovecharla, elige siempre poner en tu mente lo agradable en lugar de lo desagradable.