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Quotes About Contentment

I wish I had what you and Grandma have." "You have different things," Dong Hyun said. "You were born into a different world than I was. Maybe you don't need what Grandma and I have.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
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.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
When you have little, mine Aviva, you learn to take care. When you have much, you must accept that you could someday have little," she would say. "To take care of something is to love it.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Their happiness is not her unhappiness. Unless it is. What if there is only an equal ratio of happiness to unhappiness in the world at any given time? She should be nicer.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
They know there's no such thing as perfect.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
What if there is only an equal ratio of happiness to unhappiness in the world at any given time?
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Y si en un momento dado hubiese la misma proporción de felicidad e infelicidad en el mundo?
~ Gabrielle Zevin
She is thirty-one years old and she thinks she should have met someone by now. And yet . . . Amelia the bright-sider believes it is better to be alone than to be with someone who doesn't share your sensibilities and interests. (It is, right?)
~ Gabrielle Zevin
When I was young, I used to think that wealth and power would bring me happiness... I was right.
~ Gahan Wilson
And so, with laughter and love, we lived happily ever after.
~ Gail Carson Levine
You know, Young, this is as good as anything gets. I wonder if this is it? Is this the very best day I'll ever have? (122)
~ Gail Giles
Sometimes I don't know what to do with this much happy.
~ Gail Giles
I liked my zone small, and I didn't want visitors.
~ Gail Giles
How easy it was to make people happy, when you didn't want or need anything from them.
~ Gail Godwin
Would that there were an award for people who came to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough; and when you have enough, you have self-respect.
~ Gail Sheehy
Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough
~ Gail Sheehy
I have a mantra in my head that there will always be another meal. I can put my fork down, knowing there will be good things in my future!
~ Gail Simmons
We live a short enough time on this earth. A man should do what he loves.
~ Gail Tsukiyama
Ah, what is more blessed than to put cares away!
~ Gaius Valerius Catullus
Whatever happens. Whatever what is is is what I want. Only that. But that.
~ Galway Kinnell
Giving hearts enjoy eternal happiness, self content and independent hearts are generally happy, but, those who always expect from others are mostly unhappy creatures.
~ Ganga Sagar Pant
Person who always runs after the world outside without knowing the 'self'', never gets proper peace in life.
~ Ganga Sagar Pant
Need nothing and then see what happens.
~ Gangaji
Fufillment has nothing to do with circumstances.
~ Gangaji