Quotes About Contentment

You need characters who want things. They want love, they want recognition, they want happiness.

The women I know who have children and have careers, they seem to be very happy. They love their children and they love their jobs. But happiness comes out of being willing to do your work in your twenties to find out who you are, what you love.

The key to life is your attitude. Whether you're single or married or have kids or don't have kids, it's how you look at your life, what you make of it. It's about making the best of your life wherever you are in life.

Some people are settling down, some people are settling and some people refuse to settle for anything less than butterflies.

I can safely conclude that we are single because we want to be.

I'm so happy and thankful I made it a point be a stay-at-home mom.

In this troublesome world we are never quite satisfied. When you were here, I thought you hindered me some in attending to business; but now, having nothing but business—no variety—it has grown exceedingly tasteless to me...I hate to stay in this old room by myself. —Abraham Lincoln

if you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with!

I repeat my motto: poco spero, nulla chiedo." Little I hope, nothing I ask.

there's nothing better in the world than sitting or lying down with a cat on your lap, and listening to that soft throaty noise of happiness and contentment to make you feel that life is good, no matter what else is going on.

In her inspiring book The Not So Big Life, she says, "We need to remodel the way we are living, but not in a way that gives us more of the same kinds of space we already have; that would simply create an even bigger life. What we need is a remodeling that allows us to experience what's already here but to experience it differently, so that it delights us rather than drives us crazy." Even a small detail in a home

When I am tempted to complain I choose praise and gratitude. I take a deep breath. I look around and see How rich I am in the things that count.

Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have.

When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out;

If you measure your happiness by the amount of liquid you have in your glass, you are either a cliché or an alcoholic.

The smile that spread across my face felt like sunshine warming me from the inside out

Thank you," she says and yanks the pull-tab off the soda can. She takes a big sip and aaahs. Then she takes the pull-tab and puts it on her ring finger like a wedding band. She holds her hand out and looks at it. "Someday," she says wistfully. "Wow, a soda pop pull-tab ring. You're easy. Most girls want their ring from Tiffany's." "Well, I'm not most girls." She's telling me?

I have done without electricity, and tend the fireplace and stove myself. Evenings, I light the old lamps. There is no running water, and I pump the water from the well. I chop the wood and cook the food. These simple acts make man simple; and how difficult it is to be simple!

La soledad es peligrosa. Es adictiva. Una vez que te das cuenta de cuánta paz hay en ella, no quieres lidiar con la gente".

He wondered if something was mentally wrong with him for being content with what he had

The seductive comforts of success, though, can lull us into accepting the status quo.

I allowed myself one more thought. Maybe, just maybe, everything was pretty fine, just the way it was. Tank lived that way. Why not me?

It's ok if you want to stop fighting.

I remember watching it all and getting the tickling in my chest and thinking to myself: This is what happiness feels like.