Quotes About Contentment

É engraçado como os nossos desejos desaparecem quando são demasiado fáceis de alcançar.

When Less is More, you often get More with Less. More passion with less planning. More love and intimacy with less information and grief. More freedom with less fretting. And, yes, while we're at it, more style with less stuff.

As soon as you notice your first wrinkle and your first white hair, sigh with ease. You are well on your way to becoming who you always wanted to be." VÉRONIQUE VIENNE

She is able to draw the line between who she is and who she is not on every level, so she is able to discriminate without ambivalence—whether it's about a skirt or a man that simply isn't right for her life. It also makes it easy for her to ignore the pressure to be all things to all people, and to appreciate the company of herself—with a book, a glass of wine

Oddly, I found myself calmer than I'd been in a long while. Maybe it was simply because my muscles ached or maybe because I felt that nothing was more compelling than the stack of wood that was waiting in Camelli's garage.

My friends stood on the ground two feet below me, and miles away from understanding why I would want to sleep on a trailer platform... I couldn't possibly begin to explain what was only beginning to bud inside me: I wanted a home. I wanted to be at home, in the world and in my body (a feeling I had been missing since I'd woken up in the hospital) and somehow, in some as yet undefined way, I knew that windows in the great room and a skylight over my bed were going to help with that.

A man doesn't recognize his own wife. Because she's happy.

Living up the Moyea with plenty of small chores to distract him, he forgot he was a sad man. When the hymns began, he remembered.

Happiness can not be traveled to,owned,earned or worn.It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love,grace&gratitude.

A good life is a collection of happy moments.

He was a man who knew he'd come in after a long day and had found his shade (Irma)

If you've ever had to run you know that stuff is just stuff. Even rich people can only stand in one room at a time.

My blessings outweigh my regrets.

Happiness made Marv anxious because he knew it didn't last. But happiness destroyed was worth wrapping your arms around because it always hugged you back.

I love my burdens.

For a moment-maybe even a succession of moments and none sharp enough to point to as the cause-he'd been happy.

It was hideous. Because if someone can be that happy? That perfect? What's that say about the rest of us?

He's happy. And isn't that the worst of all possible outcomes?

One cannot be a good person without gratitude, and one cannot be a happy person without gratitude. This provides a vital link between goodness and happiness.

All happy people are grateful, and ungrateful people cannot be happy. Become grateful and you will become a much happier person.

The only happy people I know are people I don't know well.

Or to put it another way, fun is during, happiness is during and after.

In all my studies of happiness, one of the most significant conclusions I have drawn is that there is little correlation between the circumstances of people's lives and how happy they are. A moment's reflection should make this obvious to anyone. We know people who have a relatively easy life and who are essentially unhappy, and we know people who have suffered a great deal but maintained a relatively high level of happiness.

The happiness that the psychologically impaired achieve through religion alone is often the shallow happiness of the unexamined life.