Quotes About Contentment

Practise doing things for yourself and not depending on him to make you happy.

I learned it is not enough just to be happy with what we have; we must honor our material desires as well.

Instead of feeling hopeless, he realized he did know how to support her. He had just gotten sidetracked by thinking his money should make her happy when really his caring and understanding of her had been the source of her contentment.

I've lost my love for money. It's the curse of the devil.

her mind was wonderfully uncluttered with the nagging irritations of everyday life.

Nor did she like society's way of presuming she was unhappy because she had not found the right guy.

The truth was that, at the age of thirty-six, Lacy was content to live alone, to sleep in the center of the bed, to clean up only after herself, to make and spend her own money, to come and go as she pleased, to pursue her career without worrying about his, to plan her evenings with input from no one else, to cook or not to cook, and to have sole possession of the remote control.

Speedy was kicked back in his favorite chair, cap pulled down over his eyes, mouth open, dead to the world.

I needed peace, because I'd been at war my entire life. (...) I needed strength, because deep inside I knew how weak I was. I needed happiness, because I'd been miserable for so long

Vonn Dubose may have ice water in his veins, but Claudia McDover did not. Her insatiable appetite for cash was finally fading. She had enough. She and Phyllis could travel the world in style and laugh about the Indians.

The rhythm of solitude, once so intimidating, began to feel comfortable. Aloneness, I was learning, does not have to equal loneliness.

All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.

all I can tell you is that I account myself one of the happiest women in the world.

Perhaps I'd be happier if I had a boring job like Filly, but then I wouldn't have any time to myself. I waste so much time and then I resent it when I don't have time to waste.

I feel entirely content, sitting here with you.

Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear it.

Wine is good in itself, but not for a man in a fever. If our souls were in perfect health, riches and authority, and strong powers of mind, would be very suitable to us: but they are weak and diseased, and require so great a grace of God to bear these advantages well, that we may be well content to be without them.

Kolik malých Å¡tÄ›stí jsem ztratil hledáním velkého Å¡tÄ›stí.

I have very little," he said, and he spoke as if having little were the greatest fortune, and the greatest buffer against the future, that a man could wish.

All his life he would hold this moment as exemplary of what love was. It was not wanting anything more, nor was it expecting people to exceed what they had just accomplished; it was simply feeling so complete.

You know what I love... everything.

At times, he admitted, he had been very happy in the apple business. He knew what Larch would have told him: that his happiness was not the point, or that it wasn't as important as his usefulness.

How I live matters more than what I do. I have ambitions for the quality of how I live. I have no ambition for making money ...and I'd have time to read enough to be a constant source of information, ideas and language.

In other parts of the world, they have double-bed sheets," wrote Wilbur Larch in A Brief History of St. Cloud's. "Here in St. Cloud's we do without—we just do without.