Quotes about Contentment

Before you say again that you're going to die, I want to tell you something. There are people who spend their entire lives searching for a moment like the one you had last night, but they never achieve it. That's why, if you were to die now, you would die with your heart full of love.

I don't live in either my past or my future. I'm interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man.

I'm tired of having such a happy, perfect life. And that can only be a sign of mental illness. That's what I fall asleep thinking. Perhaps I really do have a serious problem.

All the fame and fortune, glory and prestige, can't make me happy if it goes against what I believe.

We all want Grace, but we cannot enjoy Grace when there is an attitude of comparing.

You are about as happy as you make up your mind to be.

I want time in which to walk quietly over the earth, among uncrazed men. I want time in which to build a house, inhabit it, create a past with meaning. I want time in which to seek and find love. I want time. I want to be unhurried, uncaught. I want time in which to sleep and waken, in which to dream the truth of my being on earth. Time.

that gratitude for life came from being happy

Rest and be thankful.

Be mild, and cleave to gentle things, thy glory and thy happiness be there.

To be content with what one has is the greatest and truest of riches.

What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.