Quotes About Contentment

In that moment, when watches and clocks misbehave and you feel a cold vapor wrap itself around your heart, you unconsciously draw a line at the bottom of a long column of numbers and come up with a sum. Perhaps it's one that fills you with contentment and endows you with a level of courage and an acceptance that you didn't know you possessed. Or maybe not.

One day you'll have a quiet heart.

Don't borrow trouble.

Molly Boyle and I made love in the bedroom, in the slow and unhurried fashion of people who are secure in the knowledge the two of them, together, have legitimate claim on the next day, and that mortality and the demands of the world are no longer of great importance. What better moment could human beings create for themselves? Let the world, at least for tonight, find its own answers for a change, I told myself.

one of the basic tenets of A.A.—that there is no possession more valuable than a sober sunrise, and any drunk who demands more out of life than that will probably

Unfortunately, at a certain age, wanting something you can't be or wanting what you can't have can become a way of life.

If he set out right now to make a list of the things he had taken for granted in his life, he'd go broke buying paper.

Ari smiled. The sun was shining, the weather was great, he was eating ice cream, and all his dreams were about to come true.

I love you. I love your smile, your snarl, your grin, your face when you're sleeping.

happy all life for ever

At that instant, I knew exactly what I wanted out of life: this. This feeling, this happiness, this embrace.

Marty, my mother used to say Never get greedy with God. I think what she meant was Don't dare ask for more if you already have what you need.

I'm glad I'm feeling this way. I'm really glad. Dr. Keyes looked rather dismayed. Really, sweetheart? Yes. And I don't want to let it go. Not yet. I'm just starting to feel it. And it feels...I don't know. Right, I guess. Maybe even...good.

If I never had another thing, Id have everything.

Joy—that's the word. So easy to say, so hard to find in life sometimes.

I'd have everything money could buy, but it wouldn't be the same as having everything i wanted. Not even close

If you don't get something out of your job other than money, what's the point?

A BURGER AND FRIES FIXES EVERYTHING

Like Oscar Wilde said, "I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best," he thought.

I hope when you grow up everything you want comes your way, but especially love. When its true. when its right, love can give you the kind of joy that you can't get from any other experience.

Maybe my goals were too long-term. Maybe I should figure out a way to be happy, not for a lifetime, but for an hour or two.

she had the extra blanket.

Man, that hits the spot.

am, if well with you.