Quotes About Contentment

It's said that the best thing in life is to be happily partnered and the next best thing is to be happily single

No parent/home/child/teacher/school has an all-round 100 percent wholeness. We all have limitations and problems. But I must never think it is all or nothing. Perhaps I'd like to live in the country, but I don't. Well, maybe I can get the family to a park two times a week, and out to the country once every two weeks. Maybe I have to send my child to a not-so-good school. Well, maybe we can read one or two good books together aloud. If you can't give them everything, give them something.

We are born, we suffer, we die. However, love is a possibility for us all and, for some few, there is also a big house." Daniel could not resist asking, because he really wanted to know. "Need they be mutually exclusive? Can't we have both love and house?" Joe smiled. "Certainly. But one must consider carefully how one goes about getting the house.

I've come to think that if doing something simple or silly can give a person pleasure, then, by God, do it

When you're with the person you love, you're home.

Kids aren't supposed to have to figure out how to be happy. They just are.

You'll never be happy with what you want until you can be happy with what you've got.

Does that mean you're prepared to deal with whatever turns up? People aren't sometimes. When they learn the real truth, they're all of a sudden content to live with a lie.

I am so ashamed by the things that used to make me unhappy.

Only cat lovers know the luxury of fur-coated, musical hot water bottles that never go cold.

You can't love everyone. We're already lucky to love the ones we love.

the rocking chair test." "Pretend that you're one hundred years old," Alicia would say, "and you're sitting out on your front porch in a rocking chair. Now think back on your life. What was it like? Do you have any regrets?

As long as you can find yourself, you'll never starve.

Then he smiles as if he'd be happy to lie there and gaze at me forever.

Vorrei poter fermare il tempo e vivere così per sempre" Di solito questi riferimenti al suo imperituro amore nei miei confronti mi fanno sentire in colpa e a disagio. Ma mi sento così tranquilla e rilassata e al di là di qualsiasi preoccupazione per un futuro che comunque non avrò che mi lascio sfuggire due semplici parole: "Va bene" Sento il sorriso nella sua voce. "Allora sei d'accordo?" "Sono d'accordo" dico io.

Smiling is mostly about smiling more.

For what? Nothing's going on here," he says. "Besides I like watching you sleep. You don't scowl. Improves your looks a lot.

The most exciting thing either of us does is nap.

KEEP CALM and HAVE A SUGAR CUBE

Who needed wealth and success and power when they had love? Didn't it conquer all?

I guess so." I allow myself a small smile.

Podries demanar la lluna i segur que buscarien la manera d'acontentar-te.

No té res d'especial, només és un lloc on jo era feliç.

Se sentía tan libre y relajado... ¿Y si fuera esa su vida: levantarse a la hora que le diese la gana, salir a buscar lo que quisiera de comer ese día y pasear con Lucy Gray a las orillas del lago? ¿Quién necesitaba dinero, éxito y poder cuando tenía amor? ¿No decían que era lo más importante de todo?