It’s not what you have on the outside that glitters in light, it’s what you have on the inside that shines in the dark.

There are enough resources in the world for everyone.

There is no health in those who are displeased by an element in Your creation, just as there was none in me when I was displeased by many things You had made. Because my soul...

Imagination doesn’t always make you long for what you cannot have, but rather thrive in what you do not have.

…I should always find, the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind; but that middle station had the fewest disasters, and was not exposed to so many vicissitudes as...

Depend upon it you see but half. You see the evil, but you do not see the consolation. There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much;...

Be content with what you have. You have enough to live a happy life.

Happiness is in contentment, gratitude, and love. It is a lifestyle, not a location.

Instead of living our lives fighting discontentment, striving to gain contentment from things that were never meant to bring contentment… What if we gave it all up for a grand adventure, for a worthy cause,...

Sometimes in life there’s no problem and sometimes there solution. Within this space – between these apparent poles – life flows.

Thankfulness creates gratitude which generates contentment that causes peace.

Having lived with kings, I have become a king in my own home.

Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.

If we cannot be contented with our current lives and possessions, then we are feeding an appetite that no amount of money will ever satiate.

The Yogic path is about disentangling the built-in glitches of the human condition, which I’m going to over-simply define here as the heartbreaking inability to sustain contentment. Different schools of thought over the centuries have...

Simple things, simple pleasures, cutting and splitting wood, a love of the country they wanted to see more of, memories of softball fields and a girl named Amanda. There are such women as Theresa “Sam”...

There are two kinds of discontent in this world. The discontent that works, and the discontent that wrings its hands. The first gets what it wants. The second loses what it has. There’s no cure...

Give me a bottle of hard cider, a bowl of Peterson Irish Oak in my Neerup pipe, and please, above all, give my Henry David Thoreau’s Wild Apples. Do that and you will see a...

She had the experience to suffer with discretion.

If I ever go looking for my heart’s desire again, I won’t look any further than my own back yard. Because if it isn’t there, I never really lost it to begin with.

Give yourself the love and attention you desire, it’s the starting point of contentment.

My dad’s contentment is all that matters to me. When he’s laughing, I’m laughing. When he’s happy, I’m happy. I would give up my soul for him. To me, nothing else but his happiness matters.

Contentment and gratitude are signs that you are worthy of further receivership.

Happy the man, whose wish and careA few paternal acres bound,Content to breathe his native airIn his own ground.

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.

Was it possible to do both, to contribute to the world while merely observing it? To be content in the moment, but plan for the future? Could you follow your heart without losing all common...

Paradise was always over there, a day’s sail away. But it’s a funny thing, escapism. You can go far and wide and you can keep moving on and on through places and years, but you...

If you are foolish enough to be contented, don’t show it, but grumble with the rest; and if you can do with a little, ask for a great deal. Because if you don’t you won’t...

Perhaps it’s because I appreciate all I have so much that I don’t worry about what I haven’t got.

Life is like a story, when all the resolution is resolved, you heave a sigh of relief.

…I hear the sounds of melting snow outside my window every night and with the first faint scent of spring, I remember life exists…

We just wanna be the happy bums that we are. That’s all.

All roads out of hell lead home.

If you’re not content with the small things, then you won’t be content with the big things.

We’re all golden sunflowers inside.

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.