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...

Do you dislike your role in the story, your place in the shadow? What complaints do you have that the hobbits could not have heaved at Tolkien? You have been born into a narrative, you...

My goal in life is to be content. By that I don’t mean “fine” or “basically satisfied.” I don’t mean settling. I mean, for last of better terms, feeling like I’m in the right life.

My modus operandi is that I’ll be content with anything, as long as I know that it’s the best that’s possible.

And you require no answers”, Foamfollower was laughing in his gladness, “You are sufficient to every question”.

Complacency traps people and besiege them until longer period. The biggest challenge is to become aware of its existence and stepping out of it quickly.

I believe at least in one of the chief tenets of the Christian faith–contentment with a lowly place. I am a doctor and I know that ambition–the desire to succeed–to have power–leads to most ills...

He brewed his tea in a blue china pot, poured it into a chipped white cup with forget-me-nots on the handle, and dropped in a dollop of honey and cream. He sat by the window,...

To be happy, count your blessings and discount the lessings.

Enjoy losing weight. Enjoy eating healthy, delicious food. Do not wait until you reach your destination to feel good. Take as much happiness and joy as you can from your weight loss journey.

Well, aren’t you just saying it’s better to be neurotic, sensitive, and miserable than unimaginative, adjusted and content? Is it really better?

I couldn’t ignore the fact that it felt good. So. Very. Good. To be held, in bed, in the arms of a tall, strong, handsome man.

You have to open up to the world and learn optimism…Contentment with the past, happiness with the present, and hope for the future. Learned optimisim.

The road to happiness starts with a deep breath and an awareness of the many blessings tied to that single breath.

A man’s well-being depends upon his degree of contentment. ‘ 

You don’t have to be part of a couple to be happy, you know.

Why is it people will complain, when they have an open door, where they can walk out to and gaze the stars; rather than having a closed door to lock them in?

My personal opinion is that the neutral position on the mood spectrum—what I called emotional sea level—is nothappiness but rather contentment and the calm acceptance that is the goal of many kinds of spiritual practice.

You say, ‘If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.’ You make a mistake. If you are not content with what you have, you would not be satisfied if it were doubled.

If you’re waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you’ll never make it.

Let the water flow beneath the bridge; let men be men, that is to say, weak, vain, inconstant, unjust, false, and presumptuous; let the world be the world still; you cannot prevent it. Let every...

…there is more good in contentment, than there is in the thing that you would fain have to cure your discontent…

I am living my dreams.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.