Quotes About Contentment

He hadn't stopped wanting love. He had simply, somehow, stopped looking.

As long as she is alive and well and happy in this world, I will find a way to be happy as well, even if it is not beside her

Enough of what? Enough of behaving as you do. Oh, I can never get enough. Which, incidentally, is what you sister said to me when

You have to know I wouldn't wish for a different life," she said. "This life brought me you

No one can live with nothing.

You no longer need other people in your life once you have found your true love.

I do not ever want another love

Two things made Tyler purr like a house cat from total contented satisfaction, but only one of them was something he could do out in public.

I've had moments where I realize my body isn't going to withstand many more seasons, but I am very satisfied with my career and I am trying not to look at retirement as a sad thing.

Marriage is not essential to the contentment, the dignity, or the happiness of woman.

We will go to my lodge, yes? I will make you happy there where no one can see.

A baby ... Annie hugged her waist, so happy that it was difficult to contain herself. Someone of her very own to love. It was the nicest thing that had ever happened to her, barring none.

Who wanted to live to a hundred and one? Who wanted to go on living at all at times?

What if everything that has occurred in your life could be defined as having been absolutely perfect?

Every year, ever since the girls were born, I have blown out the candles on my birthday cake and wished for just this. Everything I have already. No loss. I can't spare anybody is what I always think. But, then, people must be spared. That is the whole premise of this life, of this time we have with each other.

I guess I really just wanted to pick out the rocks. Because now that I have them? I don't actually want them that much." I felt the exact same way. Sometimes I think that's kind of what stuff is like. You want it until you have it, and then it's like the light inside it goes out.

We enjoy our work so much we get up when the sun comes up. The stress in our life is non-existent.

I try to think of a way to get there without going past it. There are lots of ways, but they all have me walking a little farther. And that's stupid, I decide. What am I, a little kid? I can stand to see something it hurts to want. I can see it and then just keep walking. It happens to lots of people everyday. We all survive.

Because it's everything a person needs to live a decent life. It has a stove for heat. A fridge to keep your food cold and a stove to cook it when you're ready to eat it. It has a bathtub and a shower to get you clean after your chores and a bed to lie down in at the end of the day. And that's all a person really needs. And I think the whole trouble with us is that we think we need so much more.

Not a bad life's work.

If you think having and losing is so bad, try never having. Now that's devastating.

And in this one perfect but probably fleeting moment . . . nothing in my life has ever been a mistake.

If something works, I figure . . . just leave it alone. Let it be a thing that worked. Not everything needs to be picked apart for better understanding. Sometimes it's okay to just say thank you in the quiet of your head and move along.

They had shopping carts full of food and toys, but they looked bored and unhappy. How could a person go to the store, buy everything she needed—and wanted, from the look of some of those carts—and still seem dissatisfied? What more did they need to be happy, then? If all this wouldn't do it?