Quotes About Contentment

If you go through life picking and choosing, if you don't recognize that "the perfect is the enemy of the good," you may deprive yourself of joy.

Certainly we all have our deal-breakers. But when patients repeatedly engage in this kind of analysis, sometimes I'll say, "If the queen had balls, she'd be the king." If you go through life picking and choosing, if you don't recognize that "the perfect is the enemy of the good," you may deprive yourself of joy.

A felicidade equivale à realidade menos as expectativas.

If you go through life picking and choosing, if you don't recognize that "the perfect is the enemy of the good,

Until you don't recognize that "the perfect is the enemy of the good" you may deprive yourself of joy.

She still equates feeling loved not with peace or joy but with anxiety.

Here's to the moments when you realize the simple things are wonderful and enough.

If you stay open to the wisdom of your Muse, you may discover you're a playwright, a sculptor, a kitchen-table comedian, a beacon of creative kindness, or a person who chooses grace over ego and contentment over greed. And in that choice you will create an world of joy within yourself, you'll truly be an artist of being alive.

I don't need liquor to color the world

I say this is about as close to perfect as anything can be. Good God, hellion, I don't think I could take much more perfection and live through it." "Every

And They Lived Happily Ever After Should all men pile their joys up on a single spot, mine would surpass them all. —Juventius

Do you want to be right, or do you want to be happy?

he was convinced that if he claimed all the parts he really loved he would be able to make peace with everything else.

It was 1965 and life seemed easier. Her parents were alive and so was her brother, her bones were hard and strong and her vision perfect....It was 1965 and she was filled with hope, lush pots of ivy spilling from her window boxes as she leaned out late in the day to see the sunset, to smell the river, to watch her husband turn the corner as he headed home. She was so alive.

She had time to make room for him in her closet. The cat had time to get used to him. They had all the time they needed, because he'd told her he was hers, and he was a man of his word. I've got all I need, she told him. He leaned down and kissed her again, then stroked a finger over her temple, tucking a loose strand of hair behind her ear. I want you to know, he said. That you're the best choice I ever made. No regrets? No regrets.

What? Get tired of the way he looks at me as if I'm his entire life? Get over the fact that for the first time ever, someone wants me for me? That the man somehow actually enjoys making me happy? Jade stared at her. The ice cream... I'll buy a lifetime supply of ice cream. Hell, I'll even pretend he's right some of the time... it's worth it. He's worth it. And you know what? So am I.

He needs to be the kind of guy who thinks you're beautiful when you're not. So, for example, he wouldn't care if you live in yoga pants even though you hate yoga.

But you need your happy place. If it's not here, you have to go to it. And I need to let you." She paused, let out a soft broken breath. "You taught me that.

You're as happy as you make up your mind to be." PHOEBE TRAEGER

You're as happy as you make up your mind to be.

Cherophobia." She looked at him. "What?" "It's the fear of being happy.

Doesn't everyone deserve their own version of a happily-ever-after?

If it didn't bring her joy, then forgetaboutit.

Aidan realized he'd wasted a lot of time waiting for the perfect woman, when all he really wanted was someone to laugh with him the rest of his life.