Quotes About Contentment

Cuando me jubile, tal vez lo mejor sea abandonarme al ocio, a una especie de modorra compensatoria, a fin de que los nervios, los músculos, la energía se relajen de a poco y se acostumbren bien a morir.

Capitán: Pero ¿qué sos?, ¿un suicida? Pedro: Nada de eso. Me gusta bastante vivir. Capitán: ¿Vivir reventado? Pedro: No, vivir simplemente.

Contigo no tengo necesidad de vivir a la defensiva. Me siento feliz".

Pero todo fue siempre demasiado obligatorio como para que pudiera sentirme feliz

No es muy inteligente ni sensible y gozará despreocupadamente de la vida; vivirá sin enterarse de su insignificancia, y ésta es una variante, acaso la única posible, de la felicidad.

De pronto tuve conciencia de que ese momento, de que esa rebanada de cotidianidad, era el grado máximo de bienestar, era la Dicha. Nunca había sido tan plenamente feliz como en ese momento, pero tenía la hiriente sensación de que nunca más volvería a serlo, por lo menos en ese grado, con esa intensidad

If you search and search and stop searching, then ultimately you'll find what you need. It is the experience of living.

Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder; but cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night.

I'd figured out that a real life didn't mean attaining my heart's desire, but knowing it, meant not the satisfaction, but the longing. Knowing what you love and why, I found out, is as real as it gets.

I'd figured out that a real life didn't mean attaining my heart's desire, but knowing it, meant not in the satisfaction, but the longing. Knowing what you love and why, I found out, is as real as it gets.

At first she was happy because she had decided to be, and then she relaxed into her happiness and just felt it.

But sometimes you can spend a lot of sorrow trying to change things for the better, when what was first was best. Its only you were too foolish to realize it.

Die moeilikste ding op aarde om te aanvaar, buiten jou eie verganklikheid, is jou eie middelmatigheid.' – WILLEM PRINS (Misverstand)

For my own part, I have never found happiness in love.

I finally understood what my grandmother meant. If I wasn't comfortable with myself, I would never be comfortable.

Tears are for happiness.

It is more important to live the life one wishes to live, and to go down with it if necessary, quite contentedly, than to live more profitably but less happily.

He lay down beside the fawn. He put one arm across its neck. It did not seem to him that he could ever be lonely again.

He would be lonely all his life. But a man took it for his share and went on.

a pie so delicate, so luscious, that I hope to be propped up on my dying bed and fed a generous portion. Then I think that I should refuse outright to die, for life would be too good to relinquish.

Ma Baxter rocked complacently. They were all pleased whenever she made a joke. Her good nature made the same difference in the house as the hearth-fire had made in the chill of the evening.

The trick is to enjoy life. Don't wish away your days, waiting for better ones ahead.

We women have a lot to learn about simplifying our lives. We have to decide what is important and then move along at a pace that is comfortable for us. We have to develop the maturity to stop trying to prove something. We have to learn to be content with what we are.

The trick is to enjoy life. Don't wish away your days, waiting for better ones ahead. The grand and the simple. They are equally wonderful.