Quotes About Contentment

True happiness is in the mind and finding it is all about transforming your intellect, emotions and attitudes. True happiness is mental peace.

When you are able to share those things that you consider precious to you, their hold over you diminishes. Unshackled by the love of possessions that have no meaning, you are free to search for a happiness based on love and compassion for other people rather than things. Interacting

True happiness is not a product of the physical environment. It does not come from who the people around you are and what they do. It does not come from what you own. It does not come from the accolades you win or the events that happen around you. True happiness is innate and a creation of your mind. It is mental peace that can be achieved anytime, anywhere even when you do not have every thing you want.

Why are you always smiling? What do you know?

I had that hole in me, that empty space. I could have lived my life with it, content enough. I wasn't an unhappy man."..................... The tears came now. He watched them drip down her cheeks, wondered if she were even aware they leaked out of her. "She was part of my life. You are my life. If I have a regret, it's that even for an instant you could think otherwise. Or that I allowed you to." -Roarke

Why is that? Why do we love each other?" "Because we are what we are, and we're both okay with it.

Simple doesn't mean unfulfilled.

Eve bit into some bacon -- honestly, good sex, a hot shower, then bacon? Did a morning get any better?

But sitting in her own home, with a real meal, and a man who not only listened but got it? She'd won life's trifecta.

Love, she knew—where once she hadn't believed—could be quiet and sweet, and still hold the world.

When you don't know what you can have, you do okay with what you've got.

and thought if every day started off with sex and waffles, people would maybe be less inclined to kill each other.

every day started off with sex and waffles, people would maybe be less inclined to kill each other.

since I have my heart's desire, I suppose I'm rich as well.

It's like she just can't be happy. I don't get that when there's so much to be happy about. Look what we get to do for a living. Yeah, sometimes it's hard, but mostly it's just fun. And they pay us a lot of money. Everything's easier, it's better when you let yourself be happy. It's like she can't.

Wilkey is another malignant narcissist, and one with a messiah complex. A charismatic bigot who draws in his followers with words of harmony, peace, personal success, and contentment

A nice settled moment between the business of the day and the puzzle of the evening. It occurs to me these are moments I live for.

Galahad was curled up in her sleep chair.

Understanding wasn't always the answer. He knew that. Accepting was.

Me falta algo, Eugenio. Sé que no debería ser así, pero lo es. La vida que tengo no me basta.

There are too much of them according to our scales, not to theirs... The more, the happier.

Esta insatisfacción constante, ese anhelo de algo que echas en falta, es una forma de pensar de la que, en mi opinión, nos hemos librado. No nos falta nada. Lo que tú crees echar en falta es una ilusión. Vives por una ilusión.

Turb?t kol žmogus gyvas, tol jam viskas gerai.

Qué suerte no tener hijos, pensó: qué suerte no desear ser padre. No sabría qué hacer aquí, en lo más profundo del país, con un niño que necesitaría leche, ropa, amigos y un colegio. No cumpliría con mi deber, sería el peor de los padres. En cambio no es difícil vivir una vida que consiste únicamente en pasar el tiempo.