Quotes About Contentment

In my reading, I sought a contemporary, someone who lived what I thought of as my "other life," the one not lived, but so lavishly imagined and desired that it felt not like another life, but a version of my own. You feel—I did—deep contentment when you find such a life expressed by a writer who has lived it, as if in reading that life you (sort of) live it too.

At any rate, Therese thought, she was happier than she ever had been before. And why worry about defining everything?

I'm going to enjoy what I've got as long as it lasts.

I'm not melancholic,' she protested, but the thin ice was under her feet again, the uncertainties. or was it that she always wanted a little more than she had, no matter how much she had?

She probably had all the time in the world, Therese thought, probably did nothing all day but what she felt like doing.

world comes to realize what I felt going up the hill, then there'll be a kind of right economy of living and of using and using up. Do you know what I mean?" Dannie had clenched his fist, but his eyes were bright as if he still laughed at himself. "Did you ever wear out a sweater

He loved possessions, not masses of them, but a select few that he did not part with. They gave a man self-respect. Not ostentation but quality, and the love that cherished the quality. Possessions reminded him that he existed, and made him enjoy his existence.

Before they slept, Lily felt Cade's hand slide to her side and test her growing roundness. Sleepily, she murmured, He is larger than Roy at this stage, I think. I am getting fat already. You'll never be fat. You are beautiful. I want to hold both of you. Cade adjusted her so she lay contentedly against his side. He had called her beautiful. No one had ever called her that before. Smiling, Lily finally drifted off to sleep. Cade

You've been spending money again, Lily murmured as she felt Cade's arms tighten around her. I spent a lifetime saving that money until I had someone to spend it on. I think I've found what I was looking for. Lily

But do we appreciate all this? Ah, no. As Schopenhauer said: "We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack." Yes, the tendency to "seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack" is the greatest tragedy on earth. It has probably caused more misery than all the wars and diseases in history.

Happiness is not mostly pleasure; it is mostly victory.

Schopenhauer: "Raramente pensamos en lo que tenemos, sino siempre en lo que nos falta".

Tuve aflicción por no tener zapatos hasta que vi a quien no tenia pies.

Ha llovido muy poco últimamente en la zona triguera y podemos tener otra sequía. Si es así, ¿cómo podré obtener mi pan el próximo otoño? O supongamos que pierdo mi empleo… ¡Oh, Dios mío! ¿Cómo podré conseguir entonces mi pan cotidiano?". No, esta oración nos enseña a pedir solamente el pan de hoy. El pan de hoy es el único pan que se puede comer.

Lo más importante que aprendí entonces fue que, si se tiene agua para beber y algo para comer en la medida suficiente, no hay motivo alguno para quejarse

told her how happy I was with her choices. It

casi todas las personas son tan felices como se deciden a serlo.

Don't stew about the future. Just live each day until bedtime.

today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness And every tomorrow a vision of hope.

Portanto, não pensem no amanhã, pois o amanhã trará as suas próprias preocupações. Basta a cada dia o seu próprio mal.

Bersikaplah ring dan anda akan merasa riang.

About ninety percent of the things in our lives are right and about ten percent are wrong. If we want to be happy, all we have to do is to concentrate on the ninety percent that are right and ignore the ten percent that are wrong.

Feliz es sólo el hombre bien templado  que de hoy se hace dueño indiscutido,  que al mañana increparle puede osado:  "extrema tu rigor, que hoy he vivido".

even if we owned the world with a hog-tight fence around it, we could eat only three meals a day and sleep in one bed at a time—even a ditch digger can do that; and he will probably eat with more gusto and sleep more peacefully than Rockefeller.