Quotes About Contentment

At the bottom I was quite content, for though I have never had great cares I have never had so care-free a life as at the front. Everything is clear and simple. My rights and duties are prescribed. I need earn no money. My food is provided me, and if things go badly with me I have a thousend fellow-sufferers, and above all, the shadow of death reduces every problem to a pleasant insignificance.

I grab a sticky note from my bedside table. Reasons It's Okay to Be Me: 1. This is exactly how God wanted me to be. 2. We don't all have to be doctors! 3. If everyone were a genius, we would have no normal people, and then geniusness would be a normality. Without me, Zach is not a genius. 4. Even though it is for Zach, I still get Cheesecake Factory too! Yay!

She pats my knee. I'm going to tell you something my grandmother told me when I was fifteen years old. `Eliza, you won't ever be content with someone if you can't learn how to be content by yourself first.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions but in having few wants.

Sara, your work is not to look for the perfect place where only the things you want exist. Your work is to look for the things you want in every place.

The more you think of things that please you, the better you will feel. The better you feel, the better things will go for you.

Struggle, struggle, struggle never leads to a happy ending. It defies Law. "When I get there, then I'll be happy" is not a productive mind-set because unless you are happy, you cannot get there. When you decide to first be happy—then you will get there.

And it is nice to know that it matters not what others are choosing, or what others are even thinking about what I am choosing. What is important is that I am pleased with me, and as I see myself, I certainly am.

Look forward to where you want to be and spend no time complaining about where you are.

In your lack of self-appreciation, you deny yourself your natural inheritance of continuous joy.

Success is about a happy life, and a happy life is just a string of happy moments. But most people do not allow the happy moments because they are so busy trying to get a happy life.)

You want peace so badly and in the wanting of it there is no peace. Only when the wanting stops will you discover that peace has been there all along.

Beauty, it's an inner sense, and it makes us happy. It's not complicated, we need it.

Flights are expansive moments when the phone doesn't ring and the Internet doesn't work. The maxim that flying time is wasted time liberates me from my anxieties and guilt feelings, and it strips me of all ambitions, leaving room for a different sort of existence. A happy, idiotic existence, the kind that doesn't try to make the most of time but is satisfied with merely finding the most enjoyable way to spend it.

Flights are expansive moments when the phone doesn't ring and the Internet doesn't work. The maxim that flying time is wasted time liberates me from my anxieties and guilt feelings, and it strips me of all ambitions, leaving room for a different sort of existence. A happy, idiotic existence, the kind that doesn't try to make the most of time but is satisfied with merely finding the most enjoyable way to spend it.

Maybe in the general scheme of things he couldn't find any meaning in life, but on a smaller scale it was okay. Not always, but a lot of the time.

I found myself in possession of happiness once more, and the evils I had lately suffered, gave me uncommon relish for it.

There have always been two ways to be rich: by accumulating vast sums or by needing very little.

simple joys are the great ones. Pleasure is not complicated.

people struggle because we don't know where we belong, and we always assume that home lies somewhere other than here and now, a mistake that sets us on an exhausting commute.

I wouldn't change one thing about my professional life, and I make it a point not to dwell on my mistakes.

Self-surrender sometimes has the potential for happiness. Submission never does.

Long as I was riding in a big Cadillac and dressed nice and had plenty of food, that's all I cared about.

One should accept things as they are and not try to lift them to impossible heights; only if you let them be will they reveal their true worth.