Quotes About Contentment

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.

We can let ourselves enjoy life. If we want something and can afford it, buy it. If we want to do something that is legal and harmless, do it. When we're actually involved with doing something that is recreational, don't find ways to feel bad. Let go and enjoy life.

Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. —AGNES REPPLIER, The Treasure Chest

Today, God, help me practice the concept of acceptance in my life. Help me accept myself, others, and my circumstances. Take me one step further, and help me feel grateful.

Detachment involves "present moment living"—living in the here and now. We allow life to happen instead of forcing and trying to control it. We relinquish regrets over the past and fears about the future. We make the most of each day.

We relinquish regrets over the past and fears about the future. We make the most of each day.

Deprived thinking turns good things into less or nothing. Grateful thinking turns things into more.

I will take a long look at where I am today and be grateful for my place. It's right for me now, and is preparing me for the adventure ahead. —FROM EACH DAY A NEW BEGINNING

To be happy we need someone to love, something to do, and something to look forward to. I

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. —AGNES REPPLIER

If you could have anything you wanted and it wouldn't be bad or wrong, what would that be? So

know what we have left. This is an ongoing activity. Don't rush it. Take your time. Dedicate a notebook to writing down everything you have, everything you did get, everything you have left. No matter what your situation is—if you're in prison, in a hospital, in hospice—no matter who or where you are, you have something left and probably more than you know.

3. Stop looking for happiness in other people. Our source of happiness and well-being is not inside others; it's inside us. Learn to center ourselves in ourselves.

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

Stop looking for Big. The magic happens when you stay small. Ninety-five dollars bought more than the secret to grief. It paid for the secret to life. Whatever we don't have isn't the missing piece. The moments we live for their own sake turn to moments of joy. Something way more profound and lasting than happiness is peace.

Today, God, help me relax and enjoy the scenery. Help me know I'm right where I need to be on my journey.

Something way more profound and lasting than happiness is peace.

If we are unhappy without a relationship, we'll probably be unhappy with one as well. A relationship doesn't begin our life; a relationship doesn't become our life. A relationship is a continuation of life.

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.

Who we are right now is okay.

Self-acceptance is that gentle place we get to when we make peace with who we are.

The real treasures of this world cannot be purchased with any sum of money. But they can be given away for free.

I'd rather have a few wonderful years with love than a long life with animosity.