Contentment Quotes
Well, aren't you just saying it's better to be neurotic, sensitive, and miserable than unimaginative, adjusted and content? Is it really better?
Everyone dies. The don't all have the chance to see what they wanted most. At least I've seen the Above. At least I've known True.
I didn't feel like I was missing anything. Nor did I feel ambitious any more. It all seemed stupid wanting to be better than the others in the same ring, shallow, pointless.
Start from here, now is all you have, there will never be a better place or time and by tomorrow you would have lost more time.
Happiness consists of living in the dailyness of life and not knowing how happy you are.
A breeze blew softly, slightly rippling the water as it carried the heady scents of late Carolina springtime through the air. Honeysuckle. Jasmine. Ripe, pungent river mud. Ah, the world felt right.
I couldn't ignore the fact that it felt good. So. Very. Good. To be held, in bed, in the arms of a tall, strong, handsome man.
Contentment is not the fulfillment of what you want, but the realization of how much you already have.
Walden is the report of a man torn by two powerful and opposing drives – the desire to enjoy the world and the urge to set the world straight.
When we turn life’s little pleasures into remedies for life’s troubles, we are setting up idols in our hearts, which actually push God aside.
My modus operandi is that I'll be content with anything, as long as I know that it's the best that's possible.
Contentment should not be confused with smugness… Contentment is being happy despite of the successes and failures.
If consumers found fulfillment at any meaningful level, she extemporized, corpocracy would be finished.
Whenever you look in front and see a lot of people ahead of you, take time to look at the long queue behind you. Let us live a life of contentment.
I was especially perceptive to all things beautiful that morning—raspberries in blue china bowls were enough to make the heart sing.
He doesn't yearn for a better, different life than the one he has - because he knows he's got a home in this one.
That was bliss. Being cared for. Wanted. Feeling so necessary to someone’s existence that there was no place for the loneliness inside her.
Give me a bottle of hard cider, a bowl of Peterson Irish Oak in my Neerup pipe, and please, above all, give my Henry David Thoreau’s Wild Apples. Do that and you will see a man contented.
The one who finds contentment is truly rich.
If all I had was all that money could buy, I'd be bankrupt!" EL
Wanting less is probably a better blessing than having more.
I think it's a real gift to be able to say that what's in your life is enough. It seems most of us re always wanting more.
If God gave you contentment then you would never pursue your life purpose. It is your restlessness that pushes you to take action, change your life and seek more of what you could possibly be.
I was so nearly happy. There remained only a tiny something, something unexplained and inexplicable that buzzed in my ear when the lights were out, like a malarial mosquito.
Some things are hard to imagine. Can you conceive of excessive contentment, for example? Or an over pleasant evening? Too much happiness?
If we cannot be contented with our current lives and possessions, then we are feeding an appetite that no amount of money will ever satiate.
As long as you're actively trying to achieve your goals your successes are rewards and your short comings are lessons learned