Quotes About Contentment

Doesn't it make you feel safe to know you have enough to read? If I didn't always have a book waiting, I'd panic.

Ã…, det er et godt liv, sa han. Jeg svarte ikke. Synes du ikke? sa han. Jo, jo, sa jeg.

You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that only makes me ill. Here am I in the forest, quite content.

What is progress? That we can drive faster on the roads? No, progress is the rest the body needs and the peace the soul requires. Progress is man"s well being.

the snail gets up and goes to bed with very little fuss

I was entirely natural and in many ways I have the same attitude now. I don't mourn the loss of my youth because I believe you should enjoy what you have while you have it.

Miss Kay When Phil walked into our apartment that night, the boys were so happy. The first thing they wanted to know was whether he'd brought back the big TV. All Phil could say was, "I didn't know I was supposed to do that." He looked around the sparse room where we had been living and said, "You should have gotten more stuff." It never was about stuff to me. The last thing we needed during that time was more stuff.

Someday I'm going to marry someone like my mom and I'll be smiling all the time the way my Mom and Dad are.

People think happiness will simply fall into their laps. You have to aspire to it. And sometimes you have to seize it when it's kicking and screaming.

You didn't break my heart, I say. "You filled it up.

Life is good, even without all the elements in place.

comparison was the thief of joy, as Teddy Roosevelt had once

My darlings, I give you this wedding wish: may your wedding day not be the happiest day of your life. May those be the simple days, the ordinary days when the sky looks so pretty, or your baby smiles at you, or your spouse laughs at your joke, and your heart is filled with simple and pure contentment. And may those days number in the thousands.

they were just normal, and they were enjoying that elusive state of simply BEING...

Yes, I was clad in yoga pants that had never seen a yoga studio and a T-shirt covered in rabbit and dog hair. But I'd been reading. There was no reason to dress up for reading. Books didn't care. Books were just happy to be read.

Real love would be when no matter how happy you were at any given moment, it would be better with the person you love. Like having that person there would make it perfect

Not everyone has to be in a relationship to feel good about themselves. Some people are better off on their own.

I guess I've found that I'd rather be alone than with the wrong person.

You could be fulfilled just the same . . . and you were also allowed to be sad once in a while.

That was all. It was enough

Karigan, meanwhile, only half-listened, her mind wandering to thoughts of her pillow. She loved her pillow, and it loved her back. It was so soft with its downy filling, so comfortable.

Once I see God, I'll never be hungry or thirsty or bored again, never wish or want again, never reach for something undefined again. I will have it all.

Success is always something completely different to people. I feel like I've succeeded, if I'm doing something that makes me happy and I'm not lying to anybody.

When you're on your deathbed, you probably aren't counting the movies you've made.