Quotes About Contentment

Protecting what we have makes us stingy and closed. When we don't have much or hold what we have loosely, we discover the self-perpetuating joy of being content—and generous—with very little.

Do the best you can, but still feel that is not enough.

You smell like happiness

Food is the most primitive form of comfort.

Happily we run away from even the brightest and best things in our lives, because we are curious about what else is out there. And what else is out there? Just more of the same, whichever way you look. Whichever way you turn, it's the same life you're facing. It's the same life that's facing you.

Sometimes I think that in not wanting children, I'm preparing for my old age. I know what I want my old age to look like, more than I know almost anything else: a simple home, a simple life, no one needing me for anything, and not needing anyone the way I do now.

Life is not a harvest. Just because you have an apple doesn't mean you have an orchard. You have an apple. Put a fence around it. Once you have put a fence around everything you value, then you have the total circle of your heart.

Life is not a harvest. Just because you have an apple doesn't mean you have an orchard. You have an apple.

What a chicken I was. I couldn't bear any aspect of living. Especially that old custom: that you have to live a better life than everyone else.

You think you can have everything. But you can't.

I'm not sure sex qualifies as R and R, but it's a compromise I can live with.

The old problems - love, money, security, status, health, etc. - are still here to plague us or please us.

You see, some people are always longing for the one place that feels right. Then there are those of us who carry our home with us wherever we go. I'm always home.

I was not happy as a child, although from time to time I was content. I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.

Early on, he'd learned to enjoy simple things, things that couldn't be bought, and he had a hard time understanding people who felt otherwise.

Look, when I look back, from 20 onwards, I was actually having a pretty good time, I have to say.

You can only sleep in one bed at a time.

Dogs don't got the problems of people. Dogs can be happy any old time.

The first indication that we are killing our dreams is lack of time. The second indication of the death of our dreams is certainty. The third indication that our dreams are dead is peace.

There are worse things than being fat, and one of them is worrying about it all the time.

Don't waste too much time wishing, hoping, and being envious; it'll make you bugnutty.

Each time I reach a goal or read a great review, I am beyond pleased.

Let us leave hurry to slaves.

My forties are the best time I have ever gone through.