Quotes About Contentment

remembered her telling him that she didn't believe much in the future, that she tried to live moment by moment, looking for reasons to be grateful, trying to create her own happiness and grace, and to use them as a means to a good life in the present and not a goal to be achieved some other day.

Pino remembered her telling him that she didn't believe much in the future, that she tried to live moment by moment, looking for reasons to be grateful, trying to create her own happiness and grace, and to use them as a means to a good life in the present and not a goal to be achieved some other day.

How do you find happiness?" Anna paused, then said, "You start by looking right around you for the blessings you have. When you find them, be grateful.

I'm a student of happiness, you know. It's all I really want—happiness, every day for the rest of my life. Sometimes happiness comes to us. But usually you have to seek it out. I read that somewhere.

that she didn't believe much in the future, that she tried to live moment by moment, looking for reasons to be grateful, trying to create her own happiness and grace, and to use them as a means to a good life in the present and not a goal to be achieved some other day.

The mental torture went on and on until, on one of those long beach walks where Anna still lived in his mind, Pino remembered her telling him that she didn't believe much in the future, that she tried to live moment by moment, looking for reasons to be grateful, trying to create her own happiness and grace, and to use them as a means to a good life in the present and not a goal to be achieved some other day.

I'm a student of happiness, you know. It's all I really want—happiness, every day for the rest of my life. Sometimes happiness comes to us. But usually you have to seek it out.

Music. Wine. A cigar. The small luxuries of life are how we survive what the mind can't fathom.

she didn't believe much in the future, that she tried to live moment by moment, looking for reasons to be grateful, trying to create her own happiness and grace, and to use them as a means to a good life in the present and not a goal to be achieved some other day.

You start by looking right around you for the blessings you have. When you find them, be grateful

Sometimes happiness comes to us. But usually you have to seek it out. I read that somewhere.

future, that she tried to live moment by moment, looking for reasons to be grateful, trying to create her own happiness and grace, and to use them as a means to a good life in the present and not a goal to be achieved

live moment by moment, looking for reasons to be grateful, trying to create her own happiness and grace, and to use them as a means to a good life in the present and not a goal to be achieved some other day. Anna's

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I'm only asking for a little love." "I think you'd settle for a kiss," Carletto said. "I'd be happy with a smile." Pino sighed.

Don't worry about everyday life—whether you have enough food to eat or clothes to wear. For life consists of far more than food and clothing. LUKE 12:22-23

The only way to make my life matter is to choose less. And the first thing I need less of is me. Once that issue is settled, I am in a position to live a life that lasts longer than I do.

Live simple, love well, and take time to smell the flowers along the way.

If everybody was satisfied with himself there would be no heroes.

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me.

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.