Quotes About Contentment

I love the phrase 'I am not afraid!' Maybe it's the best phrase we can say, other than 'I have everything I need.' Maybe they are the same. [p. 14]

Flannery never forgot this. Anne Arden, a woman who meant more to Flannery than Flannery felt she could ever have meant to Anne, had found the person she was intended for; so Flannery need not be bitter, and never was. Anne loved Jasper, and was loved. What more could you want for someone who mattered to you?

Contentment and happiness didn't exist in my life for more than a few moments at a time, and they were really only illusionary. There was always something hidden. Lying in wait to spring up and ruin everything.

You okay, angel mine?" "I'm in your arms. Life doesn't get better than this.

Eva: there's so much out there for you. You just don't know it yet. gideon: I don't need anything else. I get out of bed every morning and face the world because you're in it. Because of you, the world makes sense to me in a way it didn't before. I have a place now. WITH YOU

If I was any more pleased with you, I would lose what little remains of my sanity.

Contentment and Happiness didn't exist in my life for more than a few moments at a time, and they were really only illusionary.

I was happiest when I was alone with her. She revitalized me, made me anticipate living in a way I never had before. I

He had the look of a well-fucked man, one who was sated and yet anticipating further pleasures ahead.

I'm not looking for what I had. I'm too busy wanting what I have in front of me right now.

it wasn't about finding the perfect guy; it was about finding a guy whose faults you could live with.

I smiled, feeling dazed and high.

You often appear lost in a world of your own making. It is supremely appealing to men to see a woman content with herself. We long to slip inside her and join her.

Some things work out when you just let them be what they are.

She only wants my happiness," Jessica murmured, offering him a reassuring smile from beneath the brim of her straw bonnet. "It may

Life is short, Jax. Why spending time doing things that don't make you happy?

Until you, I didn't consider my past an issue. Yes, it affected certain ways I did things, but everything had its place and I wasn't unhappy. In fact, I thought I had a comfortable and uncomplicated life.

I point at the painting on the wall. "I don't know if I can give you what inspired that." He doesn't even look, his gaze on me instead. "I'm not looking for what I had. I'm too busy wanting what I have in front of me right now.

I didn't want any flowers, I only wanted to lie with my hands turned up and be utterly empty. How free it is, you have no idea how free.

Is anyone anywhere happy?

I may never be happy, but tonight I am content. Nothing more than an empty house, the warm hazy weariness from a day spent setting strawberry runners in the sun, a glass of cool sweet milk, and a shallow dish of blueberries bathed in cream. When one is so tired at the end of a day one must sleep, and at the next dawn there are more strawberry runners to set, and so one goes on living, near the earth. At times like this I'd call myself a fool to ask for more...

What a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is infinite security.

I didn't want any flowers, I only wanted To lie with my hands turned up and be utterly empty. How free it is, you have no idea how free—— The peacefulness is so big it dazes you, And it asks nothing, a name tag, a few trinkets. It is what the dead close on, finally; I imagine them Shutting their mouths on it, like a Communion tablet. --from Tulips, written 18 March 1961

If I didn't think, I'd be much happier.