Quotes About Contentment

Travel light, was all she ever said about the house when he suggested he buy her a lamp or anything, and he suspected that she would have said the same thing about having more friends.

Travel light. She extended her arms to embrace her house, maybe the whole world.

Maybe just being alive, and having someone to love who loved you back, was enough.

Perhaps the greatest worry of all was that one day you would realize that all the worries of your life amounted to one thing: the desire to just stop worrying.

Too many what-ifs are just a way to keep yourself up at night, and there's not enough decent sleep to go around.

There was something in the pages of these books that had the power to make him feel better about things, a life raft to cling to before the dark currents of memory washed him downstream again, and on brighter days, he could even see himself going on this way for some time. A small but passable life.

So perhaps the greatest worry of all was that one day you would realize that all the worries of your life amounted to one thing: the desire to just stop worrying.

The key to happiness in life is not to have everything, but to appreciate everything we have. Let's focus on the good and find motivation in the little things.

If you can measure success in this business based on happiness alone I feel like I've hit the lottery.

But I have many things. I have a beautiful home, a thriving business, and the most super wife a man could wish for.

these two people who had everything money could buy but the one thing that could be given freely: love.

Inertia is so easy—don't fix what's not broken. Leave well enough alone. So we end up accepting what is broken, mistaking complaining for action, procrastinating for deliberation.

There is real comfort in being quiet.

The sweetest pleasures soonest cloy, And its best flavour temperance gives to joy.

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.

A quiet life," Stheno replied. "You wouldn't think it was a lot to ask.

It's the way my mind works, when it works at all. Things to do today: settle down, achieve serenity, live happily ever after. Tick the box and move on.

A che serve immaginare un mondo in cui non solo ottieni tutto ciò che vuoi, ma non devi nemmeno correre rischi? La vita non è mai perfetta come nei sogni a occhi aperti.

Noi amiamo il silenzio, non ci disturba. Quando il topo gioca vicino a noi, quando il vento del bosco fa frusciare le foglie, noi non abbiamo paura.

for happiness, as a rule, is hard to come by:

When at last you are come to the ocean of happiness, do not go back thirsty.

The fish in the water is racked by thirst: I hear about it and burst out laughing. What you are looking for is right at home and yet you roam from forest to forest, full of gloom . . .

Why run around offering water? There's a sea in every house. If anyone is thirsty, by hook or crook, he'll drink.

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.