Quotes about Contentment

Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.

Don't let your happiness depend on something you may lose.

Many of us are missing something in life because we are after the second best.

The real secret of an unsatisfied life lies too often in an unsurrendered will.

We are so unbelievably blessed to have all the things we have, all the opportunities and ideas and people and tasks and interests and experiences and responsibilities - choosing to freak out about it all, rather than enjoying the living of our lives, is like throwing pearls before swine. Such a waste of such a glorious gift.

You are perfect. To think anything less is as pointless as a river thinking that it's got too many curves or that it moves too slowly or that its rapids are too rapid.

Comparison is the fastest way to take all the fun out of life.

It never ceases to amaze me the precious time we spend chasing the squirrels around our brains, playing out our dramas, worrying about unwanted facial hair, seeking adoration, justifying our actions, complaining about slow Internet connections, dissecting the lives of idiots, when we are sitting in the middle of a full-blown miracle that is happening right here, right now.

I was doing pretty well—I'd published a couple of books, had lots of great friends, a close family, an apartment, a car that ran, food, teeth, clothes, clean drinking water—compared to the majority of the planet, my life was a total cream puff. But compared to what I knew I was capable of, I was, shall we say, unimpressed.

Greed comes from the same lack mindset as poverty.

The life you want is right here, right now.

A relationship isn't going to make me survive. It's the cherry on top.