Quotes About Contentment

Piensa en el chatir—dijo Rob cariñosamente—. Piensa en el día más feliz de tu vida.

Happiness is closer to the experience of acceptance and contentment than it is to pleasure. True happiness exists as the spacious and compassionate heart's willingness to feel whatever is present.

We live in a society where the "nothing" (shopping, watching TV) has become a "something" and the "something" (relaxing, meditating, sharing) has become a void in need of being filled.

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.

Well, I'm gonna get out of bed every morning... breathe in and out all day long. Then, after a while I won't have to remind myself to get out of bed every morning and breathe in and out... and, then after a while, I won't have to think about how I had it great and perfect for a while. - Sleepless in Seattle

My idea of a perfect day is a frozen custard at Shake Shack and a walk in the park. (Followed by a Lactaid.) My idea of a perfect night is a good play and dinner at Orso. (But no garlic, or I won't be able to sleep.) The other day I found a bakery that bakes my favorite childhood cake, and it was everything I remembered: it made my week.

Sometimes I think that not having to worry about your hair anymore is the secret upside of death.

I'll tell you how sensible Arthur is: he doesn't even mind being bald.

Sometimes I wonder about my life. I lead a small life - well, valuable, but small - and sometimes I wonder, do I do it because I like it, or because I haven't been brave?

My brain clears in an amazing way. Nora. We can't do everything. I have been given the secret of life. Altough it's probably a little late.

My mother was like a cat who could never catch the tail of happiness because she never stopped chasing it.

I guess money can't buy happiness if you shop in the wrong places.

Half full, half empty, what the hell difference does it make? If there's something in the damn glass, drink it.

Love can really screw you up before you figure out how to live with it. And once you do? You wonder how the hell you ever lived without it

Better, Cilla thought, to be alone on a quiet night than to be alone in a crowd. Much better.

We all look. The lucky find. The wise accept.

she lost twenty minutes sitting on the floor with her arms wrapped around her knees, smiling into the pretty glow and imagining herself a contented farmer's wife waiting for her man to come in from the fields.

And the marriage thing? You'll give it a shot? She grinned into the sunlight. It might not have been the world's most romantic proposal, but it suited her. It suited her just fine.

She'd learned not to hurry—had taught herself not to push, not to rush, but to take things as they came. And in a very real way to embrace every single moment.

Algumas pessoas querem o simples, o banal e o tranquilo. Isso não faz com que as pessoas que querem o complicado, o extraordinário e o emocionante sejam gananciosas ou egoístas. Querer é querer, qualquer que seja o sonho.

I think you should do what makes you happy. And sometimes doing what makes you happy is harder and scarier than doing what's safe.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition.

It takes a bit of time, but why hurry through the day just to get to the next?

She thought it lovely, and at the same time felt relief that, at the moment, her heart kept silent. A speaking heart could break-she knew that very well. As long as hers remained content, she'd stay relaxed and happy.