Quotes About Contentment

married women that I noticed, their solid smugness at not having to worry about the course of their future. Married women were set like jelly in a mold, whereas spinsters like me were formless and unpredictable. I patted my basket. "I have my own fossils

That is what we women are trained for, to give to others, to make others comfortable whatever we feel for ourselves. It can be tiring, thankless to be so generous all of the time. I would like to be a bell ringer. Just to go up in the tower and for an hour concentrate on nothing but the sound of the bells and my place in them. That to me would be heaven. – Chapter 22

Maybe I'm once again.../ ...Tryin' to throw away something.../ ...Irreplaceable that I'll never have again?/ To be honest.../ ...As long as I can feel warm.../ ...Isn't that good enough?/ Am I trying to let go.../ ...Of an irreplaceable today for some vague tomorrow I might never find... If it even exists...?/ Even without some big, exaggerated dream.../ ...People go on living.

You don't have to forget the past to start enjoying the present.

Chocolate, coffee, and ice cream were far more reliable when it came to providing a good time, and at least they would never disappoint me.

Let us remember that things are not what make us fulfilled. Experiences are.

Well, guess what?" Shanna's excited voice interrupted his thoughts. "They're going to have twins! Isn't that exciting!" Robby nodded. "Aye. I can barely contain myself." She gave him a wry look. "You should try to be happy for your friends." "I am. I'm delighted that everyone but me is happily married and multiplying like bloody rabbits.

Life is short. Ask God to give you perspective instead of believing the lies that your life isn't good enough.

Maybe I don't have to perfect, I just have to be good enough.

I love the idea that a family doesn't need so much stuff to be whole, that perhaps there are other ways to feel full.

You learn working in hospice that a person can, in fact, live too long.

Lust was a reliable emotion, but greed was altogether simpler to satisfy and you got to keep your clothes on.

Money can't buy happiness but it can vastly improve the quality of your misery.

They say that drowning is an easy death, once you stop trying to breathe.

Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion.

moments of perfect peace are rare and to be relished. We sat and savoured. The purring of the cat, th

Money can't buy happiness but it can vastly improve the quality of your misery.

Sie sagten, dass einem niemand das Zuhause nehmen kann, wenn man in sich selbst zu Hause ist. Und dass man alles in sich trägt, was man braucht, um überall glücklich zu sein.

There is no correlation between happiness and amounts of money.

There are times in your life when, despite the steel weight of your memories and the sadness that seems to lie at your feet like a shadow, you suddenly and strangely feel perfectly okay.

The only difference now, for what it's worth, is that I know that these things don't matter. I know that I don't have to know anything, and I know that I don't have to fell frightened of not knowing-I just have to be here

Be conten with who you are and wish not change nor dread your last day nor look on to it.

I am serving the purpose for which I was designed, therefore I am satisfied with my existence.

The best place to start an adventure is with a quiet, perfect life... And someone who realizes that it can't possibly be enough.