Quotes About Contentment

Happiness isn't about smiling all the time, loving all the time, or getting everything you want. It's about living and experiencing everything this life has to offer you, truly and authentically.

God shined down his light on our fair city and conferred an Apple Store upon us. Did I really have any reason to complain?

Oh Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars. - Now, Voyager

Fun, like champagne bubbles, can't completely fill you up.

Well, whatever you and Nancy decide to be when you grow up, I know that you'll be happy because you have discovered the comfort and joy of reading.

She wasn't looking her best; her hair was coming down, for she had shed hairpins as she'd run, and her face lacked powder and lipstick. She looked hot and tired and surprisingly happy. He thought that he had never seen anyone quite as beautiful, so absolutely necessary to his happiness. It wasn't the first time he had fallen in love, but he knew that this was the last.

She smiled and wanted to cry, too, for a moment. From happiness, she supposed. 'What a wonderful day to be in love and be loved. I'm so happy.

I enjoy being busy, I really do. Remember, I'm the stub end of the railroad. I have no family, so I'm not taking busy time away from people that I should be spending it with. So I'm just relaxing and enjoying it.

The bottom line is, I'm blessed with good health. On top of that, I don't go around thinking 'Oh, I'm 90, I better do this or I better do that.' I'm just Betty. I'm the same Betty that I've always been. Take it or leave it.

Life's too short not to embrace the things that could bring us Joy!

It is possible to be happy without having perfect health....thank goodness my happiness doesn't come from my joints, but from my heart

Consider this- many times people on the other side of the fence are admiring how green your grass is!

God holds my tomorrows, she thought. I will be content with whatever comes my way.

Happiness isn't wanting what you can get, but wanting what you have.

When all's said and done, it's people, not things, that bring the most joy.

I desire neither victory nor pleasure nor kingdom, O Krishna. What is the use of the kingdom, or enjoyment, or even life?

The soul who meditates on the Self is content to serve the Self and rests satisfied within the Self there remains nothing more for him to accomplish.

Man's many desires are like the small metal coins he carries about in his pocket. The more he has the more they weigh him down.

Enjoy simple things with total intensity. Just a cup of tea can be a deep meditation.

If you want to possess things—money; if you want to possess yourself—meditation. And if you possess yourself, money loses all meaning.

Those who possess that treasure which no thief can take away, Which, though on suppliants freely spent, increaseth day by day, The source of inward happiness which shall outlast the earth-- To them e'en kings should yield the palm, and own their higher worth.

An ignorant man is easily pleased, learned man even easier, but a man distorted by little knowledge, even Brahma can not please.

The wise man carries his possessions within him.

Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them.