Quotes About Contentment

I don't want to jeopardize what I have with her over a dream that may not even fit me anymore. She and I are enough to be a family. If you need a kid to keep you together, then how together are you?

sometime when you like where you end up, you don't care how you got there.

On the radio Smokey Robinson complained that "a taste of honey is worse than none at all.

Still, the truth is that there was nothing extra. If my childhood were a sandwich, there would be no meat hanging off the bread. We had what we needed and nothing more. "And nothing less,

Over there is like here, neither better or worse. But I am from here, just as the date palm standing in the courtyard of our house has grown in our house and not in anyone else's.

I've always enjoyed poor health.

I am deeply convinced that happiness does not exist in this world.

My literary success meant nothing to me.

feliz! No es la alegría de la infancia o la juventud, es la alegría de la madurez, la tranquilidad y la aceptación».

Si alguien se siente desgraciado, que recuerde que se siente infeliz por él mismo; porque Dios ha creado a todos los hombres para que gocen de la felicidad y de su constancia

You can be happy with money and you can be wretched with it. It depends on what kind of person you are. -- A Prologue to Love

The more wants a man has, the less freedom.

He still gazed at me, but I was confused. "It is not new that men confuse material prosperity with blessedness, and fail to value spiritual prosperity.

Well, honey, I had the million dollar houses, I had the car, I had the horse, I had the barn I had everything. Was I set free? I didn't even know what that meant.

The last suit we wear doesn't need any pockets.

I've wanted one thing for me whole life and I'm not going to be that girl who wants one thing her whole life then gets it and complains.

I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.

What makes me happy is just curling up in with my mom in her bed and watching a marathon of 'CSI' and 'Grey's Anatomy' episodes with pints of ice cream.

T]hey gave thanks that they were permitted to see so much, and begged for forgiveness for their desire to see more.

You'll do what makes you happy, and that'll be all I ask for.

At that stage of your life, there'll be no past or future for you; until I give you my breast, you'll have no memory of contentment in the past nor expectation of relief in the future. Once you begin nursing, everything will be in reverse, and all will be right with the world. NOW is the only moment you'll perceive; you'll live in the present tense. In many ways, it's an enviable state.

Their devotion had never been put to any serious test, and might not have withstood one; their love for God was based in their satisfaction with the status quo.

they gave thanks that they were permitted to see so much, and begged forgiveness for their desire to see more.

their love for God was based in their satisfaction with the status quo.