If consumers found fulfillment at any meaningful level, she extemporized, corpocracy would be finished.

To esteem what makes you holy over what makes you happy – that is the greatest dare.

Contentment should not be confused with smugness… Contentment is being happy despite of the successes and failures.

We all want everything to be okay. We don’t even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.

Everybody is so happy, and no one has a thought for you. And this is what happens to me everywhere and always. Everyone has marked out his own little spot on the Earth, his warm...

Inner contentment liberates the soul

Gracious Providence, to whom I owe all my powers, why didst thou not withhold some of those blessings I possess, and substitute in their place a feeling of self-confidence and contentment?

The world is already yours – why try to conquer it?

A lonely impulse of delight

A breeze blew softly, slightly rippling the water as it carried the heady scents of late Carolina springtime through the air. Honeysuckle. Jasmine. Ripe, pungent river mud. Ah, the world felt right.

Everyone dies. The don’t all have the chance to see what they wanted most. At least I’ve seen the Above. At least I’ve known True.

[F]rom my years of understanding … I happily chose this kind of life in which I yet live [i.e., unmarried], which I assure you for my own part hath hitherto best contented myself and I...

When we perform at our highest level of potential, we are content. Because we have given I best in what we enjoy doing.

It’s only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth—and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up—that we will begin to live each day...

She had nothing to wish otherwise, but that the days did not pass so swiftly. It was a delightful visit;—perfect, in being much too short.

Our mission as humans is not only to discover our fullest selves in the technium, and to find full contentment, but to expand the possibilities for others. Greater technology will selfishly unleash our talents, but...

Contentment can only happen as we increase desire, let it run itself out towar its fulfilment, and carry us along with it.

When we turn life’s little pleasures into remedies for life’s troubles, we are setting up idols in our hearts, which actually push God aside.

We all have a suspicion and hope that we’ve just been part of something special, something that may eventually change our lives. That no one else knows this makes it seem like we are living...

Don’t Seek Happiness – Happiness is like an orgasm: if you think about it too much, it goes away. Keep busy and aim to make someone else happy, and you might find you get some...

The world is always greater than your desires; plenty is never enough.

Why should we plant, when there are so many mongongo nuts in the world?

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment!

If at eighty you’re not a cripple or an invalid, if you have your health, if you still enjoy a good walk, a good meal (with all the trimmings), if you can sleep without first...

We found a smooth inviting boulder under a vast banyan tree, and sat in companionable silence. There unexpectedly, on that rock, I saw the secret of contentment. True happiness is only ever possible if you...

Happiness is found within Oneself. It can’t be accessed through People or Things.

All those who love Nature she loves in return, and will richly reward, not perhaps with the good things, as they are commonly called, but with the best things of this world-not with money and...

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.

This book is not the memoir of a contented man. It’s not the poignant reflections of a white-haired guru who has finally figured out the secret to contentment. It’s more like sweaty, bloody, hastily scribbled...

I think the secret to a hoppy life is a selective memory. Remember what you are most grateful for and quickly forget what your not.

The happier person is one, that acknowledges and accepts life won’t get any better than this.

I think instead [of happiness] we should be working for contentment… an inner sense of fulfillment that’s relatively independent of external circumstances.

Fidelity surveyed a group with at least $1 million investment assets excluding real estate and retirement. 42% of them did not FEEL wealthy.

To be happy to be sad and sad to be happy is to sing an echo in that beautiful language called Sorrow.

Just tell yourself, Duckie, you’re real quite lucky.

There had to be something wrong with my life. I should have been born a Yugoslavian shepherd who looked up at the Big Dipper every night.

better times” it sets us free from the illusion that somehow things should be different.

Life’s contentment is like an abstract edifice with a domed ceiling of insanity

..there are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything.

You won’t ever build your confidence from a perception of lack. For it grows and evolves from realising who you are and what you already have.

I have never loved Fortune, even when she seemed most to love me. I never considered her treasures mine, neither her money, nor her office nor her influence. Her theft of these things, therefore. has...

One of the Enemy’s most effective strategies is to get you to focus on what you don’t have, what you used to have, or what someone else has that you wish you had. He does...

Perhaps the price of comfort is that life passes more rapidly. But for anyone who has lived in uneasiness, even for a short, memorable duration, it’s a trade-off that will gladly be made.

Some things are hard to imagine. Can you conceive of excessive contentment, for example? Or an over pleasant evening? Too much happiness?

The one who finds contentment is truly rich.

Reality. Sometimes it comes through foreign eyes; because if you don’t know any better, you can’t see the worse. Or vice versa.

It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.

Where other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given.

Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts; the sight of the deep-blue sky and the clustering stars above seems to impart a quiet to the...