Quotes About Contentment

When you live as I do, you cannot indulge in jealousy. If you do, it will rip you apart.

That no matter what i did, I would always be missing something else. And the only way to live, the only way to be happy, was to make sure the things I didn't miss meant more to me than the things I missed.

What I learned The well-documented difference Between alone and lonely The comfort of knowing

I stopped trying to figure it out a long time ago. I'm never going to figure it out,any more than a normal person will figure out his or her own existence. After a while, you have to be at peace with the fact that you simply are . There is no way to know why. You can have theories, but there will never be proof.

I'm glad you're not mad at me, she says. I just want everything to be okay. I nod. If there's one thing I've learned it's this: We all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.

I have always found peace among books.

This is a difference between us: you desire what other people have, while I desire the things I used to have, or think I might have one day.

After a while, you have to be at peace with the fact that you simple are

It's okay," I tell her. "It is okay to be happy

There's something wrong when there's nothing wrong.

We all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.

As long as we can conjure, who needs anything else? As long as we can agree on the magical lie and be happy, what more is there to ask for? "I loved you from that moment on," I say. "I loved you from that moment on," you agree.

It was so much easier when I don't want anything. Not getting want you want want can make you cruel.

Now I just want it to end. I've always wanted the happy ending, but now I'll just settle for the ending.

As I step out of bed and slip on an oversize shirt, everything around me feels like it's the temperature of happiness.

When the rain falls you just let it fall and you grin like a madman and you dance with it, because if you can make yourself happy in the rain then you're doing pretty alright in life.

Along the way, they didn't say much, but their relationship has reached that stage where silence is comfortable, not threatening. Silence only harms when there are things that aren't being said, or when there's the fear that the well is empty and there's nothing left to say. Neither is the case here. They still have plenty to say to each other, just not anything right now.

I realized I would always be missing something. That no matter what I did, I would always be missing something else. And the only way to live, the only way to be happy, was to make sure the things I didn't miss meant more to me than the things I missed. I had to think about what I wanted, outside the heat of wanting.

And the only way to live, the only way to be happy, was to make sure the things I didn't miss meant more to me than the things I missed.

After a while, you have to be at peace with the fact that you simply are. There is no way to know why. You can have theories, but there will never be proof.

It's so natural to drag a good thing down. It takes a lot of control to let it be what it is. -Rhiannon

When I am with you, there is nowhere else I'd rather be. And I am a person who always wants to be somewhere else.

After a while, you have to be at peace with the fact that you simply are. There is no way to know why.

Did I love her then? Yes, in a genuine way. But I knew it wasn't everlasting, and that was okay. We had the time that we had, and we would be together for the rest of it.