Quotes About Contentment

In other words, everything has its own place and function. That applies to people, although many don't seem to realize it, stuck as they are in the wrong job, the wrong marriage, or the wrong house. When you know and respect your own Inner Nature, you know where you belong. You also know where you don't belong. One man's food is often another man's poison, and what is glamorous and exciting to some can be a dangerous trap to others.

Do you really want to be happy? You can begin by being appreciative of who you are and what you've got.

A way of life that keeps saying 'Around the next corner, above the next step,' works against the natural order of things and makes it so difficult to be happy and good.

Something else to be grateful for: the gentle protection of uneventfulness.

Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.

The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.

I think I am missing a gene that most people have to enable them to feel happiness about success and these kind of things.

We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.

When you are happy from inside, it will reflect on your face.

I'm really happy to be me, and I'd like to think people like me more because I'm happy with myself and not because I refuse to conform to anything.

The mind is a machine that is constantly asking: What would I prefer? Close your eyes, refuse to move, and watch what your mind does. What it does is become discontent with that-which-is. A desire arises, you satisfy that desire, and another arises in its place.

All I want is to live a peaceful life, to regain my life and be happy.

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.

I'm such a loser; I don't really go out. None of my friends are really actors, so in that regard, I still have all the same friends and do all the same things.

There aren't many people in the world who can say that they are doing the job they've wanted to do since childhood, so in that regard, I feel incredibly fortunate.

I regard bed as my best friend.

Regarding fame, fortune and Oregon I do wish I had more money.

In looking back, I see nothing to regret and little to correct.

I took pleasure when I could. I acted clearly and morally and without regret. I'm very lucky.

I live a life that I never regret any decision.

I am what I am. I don't regret anything.

I never regret what I do. I'm very proud of every work I have done.

One of the many things that I learnt from my mother is to never regret.

I regret nothing.