Quotes About Contentment

I always wanted what Mom and Dad had.

satisfied with what

When I loved myself enough, I no longer needed things or people to make me feel safe.

What does my soul need, Papa? What every soul needs. Right relationship with God. ... Seek Him and His righteousness, my darling daughter, instead of pursuing your own wants. He will fulfill you in ways no human relationship could. When you put Him first in your life, before beaus and jobs and motherhood, then all else can fall into place. And only then will you be at peace with yourself and with others.

You stay up here for a while, cuddle ol' Izzy-B—somethin' soothin' about runnin' your hands over a purrin' cat. An' do some talkin' with God.

schlop die gesunt.

Find satisfaction in yourself first before you ever start seeking it from anyone else.

The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.

Being an optimist after you've got everything you want doesn't count.

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed.

Fr., I want there to be no peasant in my realm so poor that he will not have a chicken in his pot every Sunday.

No, nothing has changed in my life at all, and nothing would change if I had millions.

I happen to like being sad over nothing at all. I find it suits me. (Ewan) A smile would suit you better. My mother always says that a smile is dressing for the face. (Nora) And I always say the face, much like the body, is best left naked. (Ewan)

Is something wrong? (Callie) How could anything be wrong while I have you in my arms? (Sin)

I don't know where a utopia is supposed to be, or where one could be found. I sometimes think that it is the place where fear and doubt end with the realization that around you is everything you need, and there is nothing else to find.

and gradually his face took on an expression of grudging pudding contentment.

Could fulfillment ever be felt as deeply as loss? Romantically she decided that love must surely reside in the gap between desire and fulfillment, in the lack, not the contentment. Love was the ache, the anticipation, the retreat, everything around it but the emotion itself.

he blessed again the gods of his fathers for bringing Kathryn back to him. He refused to think too far ahead. He'd already learned that to live in the future was folly, especially when the present held everything for which he could ask.

One may grow complacent, but even in peace the spirit stirs.

We all have two lives, Counselor: the one we want and the one we learn to live with. I'm content with both of mine.

I'm more than content to allow this mystery to unfold in its own time. I don't need to hurry it along.

But there was still something missing. Something that nagged at her-an emptiness she couldn't explain. There were mornings she woke with her heart pounding wildly and the sensation of arms wrapped around her. But the feeling slipped away the moment she opened her eyes, and no matter how quickly she squeezed them shut, she couldn't recapture the contentment she'd felt.

I kept my arms around Joi and my face buried deep in her hair while I waited for Peter Pan to slip through the window. I thought I needed him to tell me what I should do. But he never showed up. He left me alone with a girl who smelled of jasmine and cocoa butter. And before I fell asleep, I finally realized that was more than enough.

I binge when I'm happy. When everything is going really well, every day is like I'm at a birthday party.