Quotes About Contentment

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.

Settling is about not embracing what is best for you and accepting what you really don't want. When you settle, you accept less than you deserve. Settling becomes a habit and a way of life, but it doesn't have to be. According to Maureen Dowd, The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for

There is a mistaken notion that wealth makes people content. It does the opposite, generally. It stirs a hunger in many - and no matter what they eat, they will never be full.

Living well is the best revenge

Hayes had a smile like a hammock—just get in, go to sleep, forget your troubles and cares.

I get to live by myself in a tree, doing some bullshit job for no one? This is my dream, Stevie. This is my dream.

It's good to be home," Iris said, putting her head on Albert's shoulder. "We've been gone so long." "We are all home," Albert said. "And here we will stay.

That's why I can sleep anywhere now.

Sometimes, it's better not to know.

The most beautiful words were those which were not needed.

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

He never felt loneliness except when he was happy.

We were unhappy. We compared our situation to our own potentials, to what we could have had, and somehow there was little consolation in the fact that millions of people were unhappier than we were. Why should other people's misery make us happier or more content?

I'd never once heard her dwell on the disappointments. Instead she seemed to find small pleasures everywhere.

As I chewed on the gooey popcorn, looking out at the lake, calm and turquoise now, I tried to recall a more contented moment

She's happy now she's met someone. And I have my work." "Is that enough?" "Sometimes.

When my tears were finally spent, I felt a calmness wash over me. I felt the circle finally close.

I do think at a certain point you've made enough money.

Many of us seem to live our lives looking for happiness. That is not always a bad thing, but it can be if we continually believe that happiness is someplace else and not in the present.

Don't look to a husband or a child or a friend or your family to make you happy. It is not within their capacity to do so.

That's like hating a copperhead, Rafe said. She is what she is. Don't waste your time on it.

No one longs for what he or she already has, and yet the accumulated insight of those wise about the spiritual life suggests that the reason so many of us cannot see the red X that marks the spot is because we are standing on it. The treasure we seek requires no lengthy expedition, no expensive equipment, no superior aptitude or special company. All we lack is the willingness to imagine that we already have everything we need. The only thing missing is our consent to be where we are.

I'm not cut out for happy. Busy is going to have to do.

When will you know you have enough, and what will you do then?