822 Quotes About Contentment

You’re all so obsessed with other worlds, you’re so convinced that this one is crap and everywhere else is great, but you’ve never bothered to figure out what’s going on here!

Mama told me to make a special point to remember the best times of my life. There are so many hard things to live through, and latching on to the good things will give you strength to endure, she says. So I must remember this day. It is beautiful and this seems like the best time to live and the best place

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.

Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem

Some men fish all their lives without knowing it is not really the fish they are after.

I should be contentto look at a mountainfor what it isand not as a comment on my life.

She had the experience to suffer with discretion.

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 have been given freedom. Act, and act well until you reach your final scene.

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.