Quotes About Contentment

It was an impossibility, but Augusta lived quite comfortably with impossibilities.

Joy is the sense that we are where we should be. It is the firm belief that we are one with God no matter what is happening.

Abiding Practice can remind us that there is nothing we need for wholeness that does not already exist within us.

Te willen hebben, een huis in de duinen. Te willen hebben, verzamelde werken. Te willen hebben, één blauwe veer. Te willen hebben, een zinvol bestaan. Te willen hebben, gehad.

Very softly as he nuzzled her, his mouth near her ear, he began to sing: "I'm so happy with you, la, la...

I don't really mind where we are,' she said – 'as long as we're all together.

I wanted to become a person who didn't envy others. After all, life wasn't a competition, it was a personal journey

having money and being rich are two different things. Being rich means we have peace and love and friends who help when we're in need.

true happiness is found in contemplation, whereas the common idea of happiness as pleasant amusements is fostered by the courts of tyrants.

if you don't have love, you ought to have work you love to do.

There's a wonderful story of two people standing before God. God asks them about their goals in life. One person states, "I'd like to be a saint." God responds, "That's very nice." When the other person says, "I'm just trying to be a good human being," God replies, "You are very ambitious.

To paraphrase a Rolling Stones song, you can't always get what you want, but you get what you need.

I know how tempting it is to believe that something outside—a great job, meeting Mr. or Ms. Right, winning the lottery— can make you feel okay and mollify envy. For a while these may seem to work, but an outer fix alone, no matter how gratifying, can't sustain self-esteem.

Az unalom – írja Tolsztoj – a vágy utáni vágy." A vágynak ez a hiánya éppúgy a helyéhez szögezi az embert, mint bármilyen szorongás. Akármennyire is unalmas és fájdalmas a kényelmi zónánk, ha végignézünk a lélektani láthatáron, és semmi nem hívogat, egy helyben maradunk.

Maybe paradise is overrated.

Being an adult--was this it? Doing the thing you most in your life didn't want to do, and doing it with a shrug?

I can live without money, but I cannot live without love.

She keeps herself in a constant state of unhappiness, so she is never disappointed by life.

I am never bored anywhere: being bored is an insult to oneself.

Patience is simply the mindset of saying "no thanks" to anxiety. – Unknown

The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.

if I were to begin my life again, I should want it as it was. I would only open my eyes a little more.

If money does not make you happy, give it back

When I think of all the books still left for me to read, I am certain of future happiness.