Quotes About Contentment

I'm sorry, darling, but it's the only face I've got.

Never waste, never worry

She was moved by a kind of commiseration... a pity for that colorless existence which never uplifted its possessor beyond the region of blind contentment, in which no moment of anguish ever visited her soul, in which she would never have the taste of life's delirium.

I had forgotten how good it feels to run." He brushed the hair bac from his face and grinned at her. "But to sit quietly is a good thing too.

It would be false to say that one could ever be alone when one has one's lovely thoughts to comfort one.

You Can't Lose Something You Never Had

You don't have to be perfect. Pretty happy is pretty great.

There's the life we dream, the life we deserve, and the life we get. I'll take what I got over what I deserve any day.

Can I tell you what I want? I want to stop wanting things I can't have. I want to stop falling for jerks I don't need. And I want to stop feeling like an f/ing gooey butter cake somebody left out in the rain.

It was a place where folks were happy simply to get on with life: raise their families, do good work, live decent lives.

You make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing.

really being able to relax means you can be comfortable doing nothing at all.

Bir erkek, fil ya da tav?an olmak istemez. Dü?ünebilseydi fil de bir tav?an ya da bir erkek olmak istemezdi. Kendisi olmak isterdi çünkü dünyadaki en iyi ?eyin kendisi oldu?una inan?rd?. Bir bak?ma kendisinin dünya ve tüm bir hayat oldu?una. Kendiniz oldu?unuz hayat saf hayatt?r. Ba?ka bir hayata imrenerek, özlemle bak?yorsan?z, hayat?n?z?, kendinizi kaybetmi?siniz demektir.

If you look with envy or longing or inferiority-feeling at any other kind of life, you have lost your life, lost your Self.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased".

Our academic home was simple in its appointments, —so simple that Joy-of-Life and I often merrily quoted to each other the comment of a calling freshman: "When I'm old, I mean to have a dear little house just like this one, all furnished with nothing but books.

You have to be able to slow down enough to switch your focus away from all the ways things could be better, to know how good they already are.

And all the best words together couldn't hold the happiness.

Only by being present can you be happy. Too much attention to the past and the future takes the now away. And once it's gone, you never get it back.

Enough. What does "enough" feel like? When happiness and contentment happen, how do you know?

For the first time, really, since beginning her PhD program, Connie felt secure. Validated.

human needs are finite, but human greed is not …

Contentment consisteth not in heaping more fuel, but in taking away some fire.

Happiness--a small-scale, endearing, harmonious happiness--surely dwelt here beneath the low-powered lamps in the tiny rooms of these houses. A small-scale happiness and a modest harmony: let a man cry out, let him rage, let him howl with grief with all the power of which he was capable, what more than these could he ever hope to gain in this life?