Quotes About Contentment

Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache.

He loved his family, his friends, his writing, his painting; he knew their flaws, but they neither surprised nor embittered him.

I wasn't looking for a diversion, or a way to soothe my pain. I wasn't looking for an alternative. I just gave in to the ease of it. That was all.

I just wanted to write to tell you that I have been happy during these months together, that I have never been so happy and that I already know I will never be so happy again.

Ne cherche pas ce qui n'existe pas ou n'existe plus

At the end of the day, whether or not those people are comfortable with how you're living your life doesn't matter. What matters is whether you're comfortable with it.

I like the freedom that comes with lowered expectations.

How come Angela drives a Porsche and you're driving a ten-year-old Volvo?' Kate asked as they drove away. 'I don't have self-esteem issues,' Amanda said

Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger which he knows he was meant and made to do.

The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still. Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing -- where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger, which he knows that he was meant and made to do.

Dreadful will be the day when the world becomes contented, when one great universal satisfaction spreads itself over the world. Sad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely contented with the life that he is living, with the thoughts that he is thinking, with the deeds that he is doing, when there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger which he knows that he was meant and made to do because he is a child of God.

the best things in life aren't things...

The Lord is my shepherd and nothing is wanting to me. In green pastures He hath settled me.

Life is rich it's full of gifts-the more you have the more there is to share. You know its men with small souls who think there isn't enough to go around. They fight to keep their little grasp on their tiny piece of the world and they're always angry because they're never satisfied. They're cursed with a hole they can never fill. They may get things done but they can never keep what they've achieved.

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.

A smile is a curve that sets things right.

You don't have to be part of a couple to be happy, you know.

When you've found the right one - when you see him, when you're with him - you'll feel like you're coming home.

One way to tell if you're really comfortable with a person is if you can be quiet together sometimes and not feel awkward. If you don't feel obligated to say something brilliant or funny or surprising or cool. You can just be together. You can just be .

Happiness is wanting what you have.

a man sitting still is alone, often, with the memory of all he doesn't have. And what he does have can look very much like nothing.

Heaven is the place where you think of nowhere else.

Now I see it's in the spaces where nothing is happening that one has to make a life.

Io ho sempre voluto tutto Thomas. E mi sono sempre dovuto accontentare di qualcosa.