Quotes About Contentment

you're treating love and success as external rewards that bring happiness, when in fact love and success are side effects of happiness.

The future turned out to be just as incredible as I imagined it would be when I was little. But these days, I just want to slow down. I want to pull the shutters closed and block out the world. I want to spend hours gluing things together. I want to fill my house with tiny bits of collected junk. The more I have, the more I realize that all that matters is

When is it okay to decide that you don't need to do your best? That you have built enough character for one lifetime?

There's a Buddhist saying that when your house is done your life is over.

Your love satisfies me like a desert of oasiss.

I don't mind my age.

Papa taps on the skylight and I look up. He waves at me and smiles. I smile back. For now, I don't need to know what lies ahead. For now it's enough just to be here, safe aboard the Morning Star with my family and friends. For now, it's enough to be home.

I am still determined to be cheerful and to be happy in whatever situation I may be. —Martha Washington

When I finish reading my list, my

Dinner alone is one of life's pleasures. Certainly cooking for oneself reveals man at his weirdest.

I had no idea so much happiness could be experienced by simply sitting in a chair.

But happy is harder than it sounds,

I mean, if we could have everything, sure. If we can have it all, yeah, I wish them easy, successful, fun-filled lives, crowned with good friends, attentive lovers, heaps of money, intellectual stimulation, and good views out the window. I wish them eternal beauty, international travel, and smart things to watch on TV. But if I can't have everything, if I only get a few, I'm not sure easy makes my wish list.

Because you know what's even better than happy endings?" "What?" "Happy middles." "You think?" "All the happy with none of the finality. All the happy with room enough to grow. What could be better than that?" "For a while," said Rosie. "A while's a long time," said Penn.

Because you know what's even better than happy endings?" "What?" "Happy middles.

It's not the having that matters to you, am I right? So you can imagine living your whole life beside me, in a state of unfulfilled desire, and that's acceptable to you because it is desire itself that gives you joy.

Focus on what you have instead of what you don't have. It's a gorgeous day. I live in the United States of America. I have freedom. I can go to work. Nothing lasts and this, too, will pass." -- Chellie Campbell

Hadn't one of my all-time favorite reveries been to become a cranky hermit, live unperturbed in my house, and have things brought to me like a monarch or tribal lord?

Be where you are right now. Live your life. You are only hurting your chances by struggling so . . . .

Men. Who needs them when you can have dogs?

I can give away everything I posses, but am without love, and I have no happiness

Who will sacrifice nothing, and enjoy all, is a fool.

He scatters enjoyment who can enjoy much.

You need to learn to be happy by nature, because you'll seldom have the chance to be happy by circumstance.