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  • The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

    Twitter post from Sep 28, 2016
  • Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.

    Marguerite Countess of Blessington, Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.) (1839). “Desultory Thoughts and Reflections”, p.13
  • We think of happiness as something we can take. But usually it comes from being content with what we have, and accepting ourselves.

  • Effective listening is more than simply avoiding the bad habit of interrupting others while they are speaking or finishing their sentences. It's being content to listen to the entire thought of someone rather than waiting impatiently for your chance to respond.

    Richard Carlson (1998). “Don't Sweat the Small Stuff, and It's All Small Stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking Over Your Life”, MacMillan Publishing Company
  • If you believe in what you're doing, you'll be successful.

  • The signs of the soundness of the servant's love for his Lord are three: absence of self-willing; pleasure in every event which takes place through divine decree; and seeing the perfection of the Beloved in everything and being content with Him in everything through submission to Him in all things.

    Love   Self   Perfection  
  • If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

  • Happiness consists not in having much, but in wanting no more than you have.

  • The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters.

    Life   Happiness   Happy  
  • Animation is capable to go beyond superego defense strategies and touch deep human being contents as no other art expression.

    Source: blogs.indiewire.com
  • Success is not the key to happiness, happiness is the key to success.

  • To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

    Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.15, Lulu Press, Inc
  • Life is so impermanent that it's not about somebody else or things around me, it's about knowing you are completely alone in this world and being content inside.

    Knowing   World   Life Is  
    "I'm mistaken for a man every day" by Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. July 16, 2008.
  • Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

  • Nobody got anywhere in this world by simply being content.

    "Bendigo Shafter (Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures): A Novel".
  • Like those in the valley behind us, most people stand in sight of the spiritual mountains all their lives and never enter them, being content to listen to others who have been there and thus avoid the hardships.

  • Being content with what you have already is an art form that leads to a peace that can’t be replaced by anything else.

  • We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

    Love   Life   Happiness  
  • Happy is the person who has learned the secret of being content with whatever life brings him, and has learned to rejoice in the simple and beautiful things around him.

    Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Donna Lee Toney (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.47, Thomas Nelson Inc
  • All of us are responsible to provide for ourselves and our families in both temporal and spiritual ways. To provide providently, we must practice the principles of provident living: joyfully living within our means, being content with what we have, avoiding excessive debt, and diligently saving and preparing for rainy-day emergencies. When we live providently, we can provide for ourselves and our families and also follow the Savior's example to serve and bless others.

  • Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.

  • Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

  • When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.

  • When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.

  • A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.

    Leo Tolstoy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy (Illustrated)”, p.390, Delphi Classics
  • we must be as satisfied to be powerless, idle and still before God, and dried up and barren when He permits it, as to be full of life, enjoying His presence with ease and devotion. The whole matter of our union with God consists in being content either way.

    God   Enjoy Life   Ease  
  • Being 'contented' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.

  • When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down happy.

  • That her relationship with him was like being content in a house but always sitting by the window and looking out

    House   Sitting   Window  
    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2013). “Americanah”, p.14, Anchor
  • 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.

    Dale Carnegie (2010). “How To Win Friends and Influence People”, p.67, Simon and Schuster
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