Quotes About Contentment

Then I got undressed and, crawling under the covers, sat up in bed and sipped my drink. I felt like I was going to fade out any second, but I had to allow myself this luxury. A ritual interlude I like so much between the time I get into bed and the time I fall asleep. Having a drink in bed while listening to music and reading a book. As precious to me as a beautiful sunset or good clean air.

If you can let it go at not understanding, that's the best anyone could expect.

I could drink my coffee, read my book, pass the time of day without any special thought, all because I was part of the regular scenery. Here I had no ties to anyone. Fact is, I'd come to reclaim myself.

And any anxiety that is to not especially anxious is in the end, an anxiety hardly worth mentioning.

All I can do is live the life I have. I can't trade it in for a new one. However strange and misshapen it might be, this is it for the gene carrier that is me.

Life has gotten too much. I have no problem with dying as I am. I don't have the energy to go out and find a method to help me take my life. But quietly accepting death, that I can handle.

Although I was lonely, I was not unhappy. I was able to cling to myself. At least now I had a self to cling to.

He had no place he had to go to, no place to come back to. He never did, and he didn't now. The only place for him was where he was now.

Am I happy? If you asked me this, I'd have to say, 'Yeah, I guess.' Because dreams are, after all, just that: dreams.

Sometimes you're just the sweetest thing. Like Christmas, summer vacation, and a brand-new puppy all rolled into one.

If we own things, we're terrified we'll lose them; if we've got nothing we worry it'll be that way forever

Whether they learn it from their family, school, or athletics, many people establish an identity by comparing themselves with others. When they see others gain power, information, money, or recognition, for instance, they experience what the psychologist Abraham Maslow called "a feeling of deficiency"—a sense that something is being taken from them. That makes it hard for them to be genuinely happy about the success of others—even of their loved ones.

One is either perfectly present and entirely innocent of one's own contentment (which is remarkably like not being content) or one is aware, and thus distanced, and no longer at home or happy. Am I wrong?

there is simply nothing more comforting than the smell of one's own bed.

Stop trying. Take long walks. Look at scenery. Doze off at noon. Don't even think about flying. And then, pretty soon, you'll be flying again.

Be contented with what you possess in life; be thankful for what does not belong to you, for it is so much care the less; but try to obtain what you need in life, and make the best of every moment of your life.

The world is full of happiness, and plenty to go round, if you are only willing to take the kind that comes your way." Which is a roundabout way

You see, things being good has nothing to do with how you feel outside, it is all to do with how you are inside.

We cannot avoid pain, we cannot avoid loss. Contentment comes from the ease and flexibility with which we move through change.

THEY ARE CHILDREN!' Mr Wallaker roared. 'They are not corporate products! What they need to acquire is not a constant massaging of the ego, but confidence, fun, affection, love, a sense of self-worth. They need to understand, now, that there will always – always – be someone greater and lesser than themselves, and that their self-worth lies in their contentment with who they are, what they are doing and their increasing competence in doing it.

Everything's just so good now, because, as Dad says, 'It's coming from the inside, not the outside.

I will not sulk about having no boyfriend, but develop inner poise and authority and sense of self as woman of substance,complete without boyfriend, as best way to obtain boyfriend.

En realidad, estoy completamente a favor de la resignación. Puedes convencerte a ti mismo de cualquier guión que elijas y eso te tiene como unas pascuas;...

Another time might be easier than this one, but there's only the time you're in, thinks Enid. And it's always going to be lacking somehow. Best to spend some of your moments here on earth noticing what else is here with you instead of concentrating solely on your own misery.