Quotes About Contentment

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Much of our lack of peace is the result of willingly exploiting ourselves by creating an overextended, imbalanced lifestyle organized around trying to accumulate what we often do not need and which is detrimental to our physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual well-being.

It is enough to be, nothing more is needed." The

Recordar un buen momento es sentirse feliz de nuevo.

The more the heart is sated with joy, the more it becomes insatiable.

A life isn't measured in hours and minutes. It's the quality, not the length.

What were you like," I asked her. "we're you happy? Or were you smiling because they told you to?

It's when you don't need something that you tend to lose it.

A life isn't measured in hours or minutes. Its the quality not the length. All things considered I've been luckier than most. Almost sixteen years on Earth, and I've already had eight good ones here. I expect to have eight more before all's good said and done. Nearly thirty-two years total, and that's not too shabby

the things we don't have are sadder than the things we have. Because the things we don't have exist in our imaginations, where they are perfect.

The fish does not die with regrets because the fish cannot love. I die with regrets, and yet I am glad I am not a fish.

In truth, she hadn't put much thought into whether she was happy before. She supposes that since she never thought about it, she must have been happy. People who are happy don't really need to ask themselves if they are happy or not, do they? They just are happy, she thinks.

Because the things we don't have are sadder than the things we have. Because the things we don't have exist in our imaginations, where they are perfect.

He was happiest when he did not have to think about his body--when he could forget that he had a body at all.

There must be more to life than working and swimming and playing Go." "The boredom you speak of," Alabaster said. "It is what most of us call happiness.

When she was forty, would she lament that she hadn't had sex with more people and partied more? But then, she didn't enjoy many people, and she had never gone to a party that she wasn't eager to leave. She hated being drunk, though she did enjoy smoking a joint every now and then. She liked playing games, seeing a foreign movie, a good meal. She liked going to bed early and waking up early.

No. It's very simple. I want to make something that will make people happy.

It is lucky, she thinks, that we don't feel all the love inside us every moment.

Once I surrendered to it, all I tasted was the sweetness.

Enough is…Maybe this is selfish, but I don't want to love more than I am loved. And I don't want to be with someone who loves something or someone more than me.

You are happy and you are bored. You need to find a new pastime.

The boredom you speak of," Alabaster said. "It is what most of us call happiness.

What you call boredom some people call happiness

The boredom you speak of, it is what most of us call happiness.