Quotes About Contentment

Lo que poseo parece ser mío, pero soy poseído siempre por aquello que tengo.

?i eu sunt om, ?i eu vreau s? fiu mare ?i fericit.

A thing is complete when you can let it be.

My father died when I was two years old. But my mother was quite capable. She raised three children with his war pension which was peanuts. Yet we did not want for anything. We grew up with a certain parsimony, which is a nice thing. Then if life gives you more good, otherwise you get used to. I'm still thrifty.

Bellacoglienza era rimasta sola, e si stringeva nel suo lettino. Era felice di essere sola. Dante Alighieri, quante parole gli aveva sentito mormorare, quante sciocchezze sussurrano gli uomini in quel momento. Era un poeta importante, le aveva detto qualcuno. Chissà.

The Sicilians never want to improve for the simple reason that they think themselves perfect.

Not smart. Happily stupid. Stupidly happy.

He was a blessing in my life. My life was full of blessings. And one curse: That no amount of blessings was ever enough.

If you had a lot of money and you were miserable, you'd be miserable poor.

There were so many things I liked. That was the awful thing about being alive: there were so many things one liked. The awful thing about life was that there were so many things m full stop.

I intend to live as a happy man, though I am not quite ready to live as one, which means I'm not quite ready to die; whatever it is, I'm working on it, trust me

I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is better.

Most times we're so focused on what we think we want that we can't appreciate how happy we already are. It's only when we forget about our problems and help others forget theirs that we realize how good we really have it.

To find something you can enjoy is far better than finding something you can possess.

What was it Chekhov once said? 'We live for love, and for hope and dreams, and for the small things that please us and for little else.

By contrast to the above views, people with self-esteem believe they are neither more or less than human. Knowing their faults and rough edges, they still are deeply and quietly glad to be who they are (Briggs 1977). They are like the good friend who knows you well and likes you anyway because they recognize the goodness, excellence, and potential that coexist alongside imperfections.

But I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or to make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel.

Writing is the only thing that when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.

Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.

Kirjoittaminen on ainoa asia, jota tehdessäni minusta ei tunnu siltä, että minun pitäisi tehdä jotain muuta.

As we started on our journey, I noticed that without possessions, I felt oddly free.

He took comfort in not knowing about the future.

To be happy--one must find one's bliss

Glynnis Campbell