Quotes About Contentment

Name one hero who was happy...

He said, "Then we will go back. We will go back until you are satisfied." It was so simple. If you want it, I will do it. If it will make you happy, I will go with you. Is there a moment that a heart cracks?

Sólo vives una vez, pero si vives bien una vez es suficiente.

Sometimes the most important things in life are the things we take for granted.

That's enough. You can stop now: the phrase Sedgwick said she longed to hear whenever she was suffering. (Enough hurting, enough showing off, enough achieving, enough talking, enough trying, enough writing, enough living.)

And if 'saturation' means that one simply could not absorb or contain one single drop more, why does 'saturation' not bring with it a connotation of satisfaction, either in concept, or in experience?

Stop working against the world, I counseled myself. Love the one you're with. Love the color green. But I did not love the green, nor did I want to have to love it or pretend to love it. The most I can say is that I abided it.

What if where I am is what I need?

During our first forays out as a couple, I blushed a lot, felt dizzy with my luck, unable to contain the nearly exploding fact that I've so obviously gotten everything I'd ever wanted, everything there was to get. Handsome, brilliant, quick-witted, articulate, forceful, you. We spent hours and hours on the red couch, giggling, The happiness police are going to come and arrest us if we go on this way. Arrest us for our luck.

What if where I am is what I need?' Before you, I had always thought of this mantra as a means of making peace with a bummer or even a catastrophic situation. I never imagined it might apply to joy, too

What if where I am is what I need? Before you, I had always thought of this mantra as a means of making peace with a bummer or even catastrophic situation. I never imagined it might apply to joy, too.

Its happiness has been of a more palpable and undeniable and unmitigated quality than any I've ever known. For it isn't just moments of happiness, which is all I thought we got. It's a happiness that spreads.

We must pursue what's in front of us, not what we can't have or what we have lost. We must grasp what we can reach and hold on, fast.

And as these words come, one after another, it is possible for him to slip away from himself and find a peace so absorbing, so soothing, so private, so joyous that nothing else will do.

The world was suddenly still; nothing was being required of me; I could stand in the quiet of my own skin.

You should slow down. Learn to enjoy the journey. You never really get where you're going, anyway.

right in this moment, I can´t even remember what unhappy feels like.

Those men are wise who do not desire the unattainable, who do not love to mourn over what is lost, and are not overwhelmed by calamities.

closing your eyes in dark is better than weeping for any thing without any conclusion

Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness.

Patience is the key to content.

When it comes down to it, it's your happiness that's most important.

But when I stood there and saw that the end of the journey was as vague and unreachable as the beginning had been, I realized I didn't care. No, more than that: I was relieved. I didn't want an ending, didn't want to get to the full stop of our story.

La felicidad es difícil porque somos muy difíciles en materia de felicidad. No hables de felicidad a alguien menos feliz que tú. Cuando no se tiene lo que uno ama, hay que amar lo que se tiene.