Quotes About Contentment

Maybe it wasn't that hard to be happy.

There's not a damned thing wrong with your body. You are average-sized, you deluded fool! You are an attractive, intelligent woman, you idiot! You should spend January lying in a hammock and eating cheese.

Sometimes it was exhilaratingly easy to be happy again. Other times they found that they did have to "try".

He couldn't understand Rachel's need to wonder what could have been, rather than just accepting that it never would be.

It wasn't that she'd found any solutions or experienced any earth-shattering revelations, but the act of observing her looping thoughts seemed slow them down until at last they came to a complete stop, and she'd found that for moments of time she thought... nothing. Nothing at all. Her mind was quite empty. And those moments were lovely.

Her life has so much joy. That was an actual verifiable fact.

Ah, yes, money. They say it doesn't buy happiness, but I don't know about that.

The simplicity of her life seemed so compelling.

He avoided confrontation. He just wanted everyone to be happy. The

And maybe she didn't need to go ahead with the Plan after all. Maybe it was going to be OK. Maybe that clamping sensation around her head was gone.

It was annoying that the better stuff you got, the less relaxed you could be about it.

As her mum always says, one of the advantages of being an only child is that you have no trouble amusing yourself.

practicing gratitude,

It was just that there were so many different levels of "comfortable," and at Celeste's level no electricity bill could make her cry.

You get what you get and you don't get upset!

maybe wishes do come true because this is family, this is what she never had, never knew, never dreamed, this is a moment so perfect and funny and this is her life now, just a string of perfect, funny moments one after the other, like a string of beads that will go on forever.

I am a jumble of passions, misgivings, and wants. It seems that I am always in a state of wishing and rarely in a state of contentment.

One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.

How happily some people would live if they troubled themselves as little about other people's business as about their own.

Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.

Jealousy of other people's success is a sure sign that you feel unfulfilled in your own life. Seeing them enjoy the fruits of their labors is a painful reminder that you do not have what you want nor have you been actively seeking it.

We take it for granted that life is hard and feel lucky to have whatever happiness we get. We do not look upon happiness as a birthright, nor do we expect it to be more than peace or contentment. Real joy, the state in which the Yequana spend much of their lives, is exceedingly rare among us.

Se você tiver qualquer pensamento para mim que você vai me dar de volta a minha paz!'' ''Não pode haver paz para nós, só miséria, e a maior felicidade.

If you leave you leaving the best so you would have to settle for less.