Quotes About Contentment

I'm so happy. Cause today I found my friends. They're in my head.

Since the composer has said everything, if you discover everything, it will be enough and you will be a happy man. Don't try to say it's your taste, and because of that you are changing this or that. And I must say this respect is still there.

Expect nothing. Today: that is your life.

Kurzes Glück kann jeder.

Ihr glaubt, ihr seid dazu verpflichtet - ja, das wolln wir aber gar nicht - ja, das wolln wir aber gar nicht! Auch ohne Liebe sind wir manchmal glücklich und froh - es geht auch ohne das - es geht auch so! Es geht auch ohne das - es geht auch so!

I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, "If this isn't nice, I don't know what is."

Crees que la duración del tiempo es un problema?-dijo ella en tono adulto-. El tiempo que he estado contigo ha sido corto, pero muy, muy feliz. Tan feliz que no podía serlo más. Seguro que he sido más feliz que nadie en este mundo. Incluso en estos momentos... Con eso basta. Una vez hablamos de eso, ¿te acuerdas? De que lo que hay, aquí y ahora, seguirá existiendo eternamente.

Te conformas con muy poco, Aki -dije. -No, qué va. Pido muchísimo - respondió-. Lo que pasa es que no quiero perder esa felicidad. Tengo la intención de llevármela conmigo, vaya a donde vaya, y para siempre.

Creo que lo que tenemos en el presente lo comprende todo –dijo ella al final, escogiendo cuidadosamente las palabras–. Ahí esta todo, no falta nada. Por lo tanto, no hay ninguna necesidad de pedir lo que nos falta a Dios ni de buscarlo en el otro mundo o en el paraíso. Porque ya existe.

It is possible to see God's will in every circumstance and to accept it with singing instead of complaining.

There are some lives He brings into this world neither to do great work nor to bear great burdens.

you're so blinded by the perfect vision of what you want that you can't appreciate the gift you have right in front of you.

If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own back yard. Because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with.

I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in luck not to have a heart.

I shall take the heart. [...] For brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.

No matter how dreary and gray our homes are, we people of flesh and blood would rather live there than in any other country, be it ever so beautiful. There is no place like home.

Toto did not really care whether he was in Kansas or the Land of Oz so long as Dorothy was with him; but he knew the little girl was unhappy, and that made him unhappy too.

And if you couldn't be loved, the next best thing was to be let alone.

Well I don't know that I'm okay any more than anyone else is okay, I lead a happy life and a very full one - I have a happy marriage and my kids are all cheerful, and no one is finding fault with me, personally.

You could only be happy on the planet if you never read newspapers or listened to the news.

The best thing about getting old is that all those things you couldn't have when you were young you no longer want.

This is the blessed life—not anxious to see far down the road nor overly concerned about the next step, not eager to choose the path nor weighted down with the heavy responsibilities of the future, but quietly following the Shepherd, one step at a time.

I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. (Philippians 4:11)

Struck dumb by love among the walruses And whales, the off-white polar bear with stuffing Missing, the mastodons like muddy buses, I sniff the mothproof air and lack for nothing.