Quotes about Contentment

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

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?

Though it tarries, wait for it." The proof that we have the vision is that we are reaching out for more than we have already grasped. It is a bad thing to be satisfied spiritually.

Many of us refuse to grow where God plants us. Therefore, we don't take root anywhere.