Quotes About Contentment

Choose to be happy. It is what we have all done.

Chase away sorrow by living

Sleep well, and stay where I put you.

She wanted something she didn't have words for- peace, numbness, something.

What if I want more?" "I'm sorry, but there isn't more to have

I ain't the kind o' person who turns up her nose at what's served her, just cause it ain't something else. I ate what the Almighty served me, and filled it up just fine. Eat what you're served, child, and season it any way you like. You do that and you'll get along all right.

Each moment in time we have it all, even when we think we don't.

And when Quimet saw the doves flying above our roof and only above our roof, his face stopped looking so yellow and he said everything was okay. When the doves got sick of flying they started to come down, first one and then another. They went back in the dovecote like old ladies going to mass, taking little steps and jerking their heads like wind-up toys.

You can have everything you want, but accompanied by pain, until you learn not to want anything.

Until you divest yourself of the notion that you are a collection of needs, an empty vessel that someone else must fill up, there will be no safe place to harbor yourself, no safe shore to reach. As long as you think mostly of getting, you will have nothing real to give.

Every moment of your life that is not a complete nightmare is happiness.

She never asked for too much. She just wanted to be ordinary.

Having been let out of the barn once, I know I wouldn't be happy if I were home all the time.

Ne gun?am i ne žalim se (ne znam zašto bih), a ljudi se ?ude i kao da im je krivo što sam ja miran i veseo. A ja se njima ?udim što gube vrijeme na nerazumnosti, bolje bi im bilo da žive. Ali im to ne kažem, ljudi ne vole kad im se govori istina. I žalim ih što se optere?uju nevoljama bez kojih bi mogli da budu. Dosta nam je nevolja bez kojih se ne može.

Aquele momento confirmava: o melhor da vida é o que não há-de vir.

A melhor maneira de fugir é ficar parado.

Quem pede sempre, não sabe querer.

Sou feliz só por preguiça. A infelicidade dá uma trabalheira pior que doença: é preciso entrar e sair dela, afastar os que nos querem consolar, aceitar pêsames por uma porção da alma que nem chegou a falecer.

Live simple, and simply live.

AND A GOOD DAY So I went out and fired up the car and everything was smooth and I went to the market and I got everything I wanted and the checkline had no line and I had money in my account and I drove home singing and the traffic parted way and all the signals were green and I was happy and I was in control and I smiled at the people and the people smiled at me and I had the world wired.

As long as there's pasta and Chinese food in the world, I'm okay.

He [Harry Bosch] defined good company not by the conversation but by the lack of it. When there was no need to talk to feel comfortable, that was the right company

I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been.

switched it off. He fell asleep holding Pin's kingfisher in his hand.