822 Quotes About Contentment

Be like the flower, content with its nature.

I'm starting to think paradise isn't eternal contentment. It's more like there's something eternal about feeling contented. There's no such thing as eternal life, because you're never going to outrun time, but you can still escape time if you're contented, because then time doesn't matter.

Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come--as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.

If enough were really enough, how rich we'd all be!

PossessionsLive in peace and be free.When possessions own your heart,You are enslaved to money and to corporations.Your time is owned by the moneylendersAnd they will not let you spend it freely.They will tell you what to buy, but notWhat it will truly cost you.

To the extent I am content, I am free.

Be at peace with where you've been and where you are. That's how you win the battlefield of the mind.

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

So in our own poor hides and from our miserable comrades we learn the nature of satiety. Satiety depends not at all on how much we eat, but on how we eat. It's the same with happiness, the very same...happiness doesn't depend on how many external blessings we have snatched from life. It depends only on our attitude toward them. There's a saying about it in the Taoist ethic: 'Whoever is capable of contentment will always be satisfied.