contentment

Thankfulness is the life of contentment.

Compare your life only with the commandments of God.Be like God. He is the mighty being that dwells in you.

Happiness, after all, is generally measured as reported satisfaction with one's life - a state of mind perhaps more accessible to those who are affluent, who conform to social norms, who suppress judgment in the service of faith, and who are not overly bothered by societal injustice...The real conservatism of positive psychology lies in its attachment to the status quo, with all its inequalities and abuses of power. Positive psychologists' tests of happiness and well-being, for example, rest heavily on measures of personal contentment with things as they are.

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.

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

Reality. It is sometimes brought through foreign eyes; because if you do not know any better, you cannot see the worse (and vice versa).

Rosa had achieved the sort of serene and confident happiness that Tamsin had never really known. She was connected to Roberto in a way that made Tamsin long for something similar. A man with whom she could share all parts of her life, someone to be her equal and her inspiration.

Courage uncovers strength, grace reveals beauty, vulnerability expresses humility, inner peace reflects contentment

Until I was left with nothing but life and books, I realised these two gracious gifts, where enough for me to exist.

Pegging your contentment to the overall state of the world rather than of your own life: the basis of morality, or a sort of madness?

Contentment isn__ something that just happens to you, Regan Lee, it__ a choice. You have to want exactly what you have.

All roads out of hell lead home.

It was bittersweet and lovely how this thing called family could make you feel belonged, wanted and complete.

BEWARE DON'T RUN AFTER A MIRAGEWe were happier when we were poor. We were happier when we did not have good food to eat or good clothes to wear. We were happier when we did not have a luxurious life. We were happier when we did not have our own house because we had a home, a family and understood, loved and lived for each other. I have failed to understand what we run after even when we have all.

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough

You do not need many possessions to have a happy life.

You have enough to share with the world; the gift of love, kindness, goodness, smiles, hugs, prayer, inspiration, fellowship, volunteerism and many more.

If you have life, you have everything.