Quotes about Contentment
I am perfect as I am. Everything in my life is working just the way it should. I am loved, and I am love.
— Deepak Chopra
Richard hung up, tears welling up in his eyes. But they were a different kind of tears. They brought with them an overwhelming sense of joy. That's when he realized joy happens when you fit in with your life, when you fit in so harmoniously that whatever you are doing becomes your joy.
— Brian Tracy
How shall we live in order to be happy?" Your ability to ask and answer that question correctly for yourself—and then to follow where your answer leads you—will largely determine whether you achieve your own happiness, and how soon.
— Brian Tracy
Sometimes we need to let go of things in our lives to make room for better things. Stress less and live more. Don't waste your energy, when you have the choice to be happy.
— Brian Tracy
We should fix ourselves firmly in the presence of God by conversing all the time with Him...we should feed our soul with a lofty conception of God and from that derive great joy in being his. We should put life in our faith. We should give ourselves utterly to God in pure abandonment, in temporal and spiritual matters alike, and find contentment in the doing of His will,whether he takes us through sufferings or consolations.
— Brother Lawrence
How happy we would be if we could find the treasure of which the Gospel speaks; all else would be as nothing. As it is boundless, the more you search for it the greater the riches you will find; let us search unceasingly and let us not stop until we have found it.
— Brother Lawrence
With the practice of intentional gratitude, there is no time for regrets about the past, or worries about the future. There is only thankfulness for the here and now.
— Terri Blackstock
Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Reconciliation can also be with your own self. If you don't reconcile with yourself, happiness with another person is impossible.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
The French have a song they like to sing, "Qu'est-ce qu'on attend pour être heureux?" (What are you waiting for in order to be happy?) You can be happy right here and right
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Why wander all over the world looking for something you already have? You are already the richest person on Earth.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
For true love to be there, you need to feel complete in yourself, not needing something from outside.
— Thich Nhat Hanh