Quotes About Contentment

They say that about 3 percent of the people on Earth live in bliss. So what the hell are the other 97 percent doing?

Love, it seems to me, is the condition in which one is most contentedly oneself.

In being, there is no becoming, no attachment to a goal. I see that I no longer have to achieve any standard or behave in a certain way in order to become worthy.

If you are always craving, always wanting, never satisfied, never happy with what you've got, you end up even more lost and lonely than you do...

no thans mommy i ate enough ham for one say.

ze heet gewoon Marie ze draagt d'r haar gewoon en steeds als ik haar zie denk ik wat zijt gij schoon ze draagt gewoon een blouse een doodgewone tas ze zingt en praat en lacht gewoon ze doet gewoon de was ze heeft gewoon een huis of eigenlijk meer een flat d'r staan gewoon wat bloemen en er staat gewoon een bed ze heeft gewoon twee kinderen gewoon een hond die blaft ze heeft gewoon een man die liefheeft, eet drinkt en maft hij doet geen wondere zij evenmin en daar zit nou net het bijzondere in

Porque nadie añora lo que nunca tuvo, ni puede sentirse defraudado por carecer de lo que no conoce.

I found the secret to life; I'm okay when everything is not okay.

What I want is not to want what isn't mine

Hygge is a state of being you experience if you are at peace with yourself, your spouse, the tax authorities and your inner organs.

The most important thing, thought Edith, is what happens to a person when they see mountains. The most important thing is probably always precisely the thing you can't have. That's where all the happiness is

I want to be alone to dream about my happiness.

Just think, never to be glad or disappointed. Never to like anyone and get cross at him and forgive him. Never to sleep or feel cold, never to make a mistake and have a stomach-ache and be cured from it, never to have a birthday party, drink beer, and have a bad conscience... How terrible.

It's strange," Moominmamma thought. "Strange that people can be sad, and even angry because life is too easy. But that's the way it is, I suppose. The only thing to do is to start life afresh.

The Hemulen, moaning piteously, thrust his nose into the sand. "This has gone too far!" he said. "Why can't a poor innocent botanist live his life in peace and quiet?" "Life is not peaceful," said Snufkin, contentedly.

He didn't remember, he didn't worry, he just was.

The garnets,' Sniff moaned. 'I didn't get a single one.' Snufkin sat down beside him and said kindly: 'I know. But that's how it is when you start wanting to have things. Now I just look at them, and when I go away I carry them in my head. Then my hands are always free, because I don't have to carry a suitcase.

Mutta voi, miten ihanaa on hiljaisena hetkenä juuri ennen auringon nousua mennä kotiin nukkumaan kun syömiset on syöty, juomiset juotu, puhumiset puhuttu ja tanssittu jalat väsyksiin.

Moomintroll's mother and father always welcomed all their friends in the same quiet way, just adding another bed and putting another leaf in the dining-room table. And so Moominhouse was rather full -- a place where everyone did what they liked and seldom worried about tomorrow. Very often unexpected and disturbing things used to happen, but nobody ever had time to be bored, and that is always a good thing.

Kaikki on hyvin epävarmaa, ja juuri se tekee minut levolliseksi. - Tuu-tikki

We sat talking on a rock. The air was filled with the tang of sea-weed and of something else that could only have been the ocean smell. I felt so happy that I wasn't even afraid it wouldn't last.

There was so much to talk about that nothing was said. It was warm sitting there on the steps. Everything seemed to be so right.

Allting blir svårt när man vill äga saker, bära dem med sig och ha dem. Jag bara tittar på dem och när jag går min väg har jag dem inne i huvudet och kan ha roligare saker för mig än att bära kappsäckar.

du försöker leva riktigt men jag försöker leva rikt, det är som en äng där jag plockar här och där av hjärtans lust men du går rakt igenom och kommer ut på andra sidan med tomma händer därför att du inte har hittat just den blomman du ville ha.