Quotes about Contentment

I appreciate and enjoy my age.

Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.

The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.

Let nothing trouble you let nothing worry you everything passes away expect God God alone is sufficient

Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.

I wasn't in a hurry. I never have to be in any particular place at any particular time. Let time watch me, not me it.

Be thankful for what you have—you'll end up having more.

Partake of some of life's sweet pleasures. And yes, get comfortable with yourself.

You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.

as modern people, we have too much to live with and too little to live for.

The story is told of Socrates walking through the market in Athens, with its groaning abundance of options, and saying to himself, "Who would have thought that there could be so many things that I can do without?"4

Pascal and his brilliant exposition in Pensées. "I have often said," Pascal wrote, "that the sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his own room."46