Quotes about Contentment

If you're not enough before the gold medal, you won't be enough with it.

The world can't give that serenity, he said. The world can't give us peace. We can only find it in our hearts. I hate that, I said. I know. But the good news is that by the same token, the world can't take it away.

Gratitude is peace.

Even though you know that your manuscript is not perfect and you'd hoped for so much more, but if you also know that there is simply no more steam in the pressure cooker and that it's the very best you can do for now—well? I think this means that you are done.

And did you get what you wanted from this life even so? I did. And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.

People settle. They settle for less than they are capable of.

For many of us, the happiest future is one that's precisely like the past, except a little better

I know how to live on almost nothing or with everything. I have learned the secret of living in every situation, whether it is with a full stomach or empty, with plenty or little. For I can do everything through Christ, who gives me strength. Philippians 4:12

I'm glad I lived such a full life before I settled down into a family because I got to enjoy it and get it out of my system.

I'm very relaxed. I have a family, I have a partner of 20 years, I have a wonderful life; nothing could be better.

I'm really happy in my life.

Practice being grateful for everything that life has blessed you with.