Quotes About Contentment

Is that what death would feel like? The nicest, warmest, heaviest never-ending nap? If that's what it's like, I wouldn't mind.

Talking to Marcia about their engagement, he was almost able to look the other way and rush to embrace the security and predictability and contentment of a normal life lived in normal times.

Madamaska Falls, capital of caution, where the local population is content to be in raptures about changing the clock twice a year.

I curled myself around these dreams and I began to be happy.

When you're beguiled it helps not to think too much and just to let yourself enjoy the beguilement.

We look before and after, And pine for what is not: Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear; If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found

the promise of pleasures so alluring that we may devote our lives to their pursuit, and then the haunting realization that these pleasures ultimately do not satisfy.

We truly live only one day at a time. It doesn't really help to worry about the future, which we can't control, or the past, which we can't change.

The West too may find that prosperity and self-indulgence are not sufficient to satisfy human needs.

Resignation is the better part of wisdom.

Simplicity. Ah, that I can offer in abundance.

the bird sings as if to say that delight is easy, for those who desire it

Perhaps we will not be great people, chosen by God, but just happy.

The art of happiness is being content with what you have,' she would say, looking with apparent satisfaction out of the dusty windows at the garden, yellowing like an uncut hayfield in the October sunshine.

You have to sit with your longing and know that you may not get what you want; you have to encounter the danger of longing for something without the expectation of getting your desire.

I would like you to have a beautiful day every day.

And still the bird sings as if to say that delight is easy, for those who desire it.

He was such a happy boy, and happiness is not memorable.

we stood for a moment, handclasped in the warm sunshine, and I thought, like a lovesick girl: "This is heaven.

When we lay awake after making love I could hear the sleepy birds settling in their nests in the thatch. We had a little pallet bed, a table and two stools, a fireplace where we warmed up our dinner from the palace, and nothing more. We wanted nothing more.

That's the thing about wealth and power. Once you've learned to want it—that's all you learn. You don't learn satisfaction, you just want more. There's never enough. You'll never be rich enough, Johnnie, and you'll die in dissatisfaction.

I must say tonight my greatest hope is to die in my bed, at peace with the world, as an old man.

The difference between you and the person you envy, is that you settle for less.

Self-acceptance was the foundation of the happiest time in your life and it was the engine that powered the train.