Quotes About Contentment

Happiness is waking up in the morning with no regrets or worries for the present or future; it is having peace in the moment.

When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

I don't hope," he answered, eyes on her. "I never hope. I just live in gratitude for what comes.

handing me the fare. "Hardly any food in your cupboards, and what's there is only fit for birds and rabbits." My stomach grumbled as if in agreement. I took a bite, closed my eyes, and savored the

Others found the implication odd that they could live their way forever- working and drinking and watching TV- and why they would want to.

The best way to live, then, was this: have a very simple lifestyle, be kind to those around you, and surround yourself with friends.

Also, in a funny way, if you have been happily married there are no unresolved areas, nothing to prove to yourself after the other dies.

I think God's really blessed me with patience. I'm good with a lot of things going on at once.

I'm hardly famous. I wouldn't want to trade places with anyone else.

no matter how much Theo achieves and acquires and out-dazzles everyone else, she never seems content. She's taught you that people who shine more lavishly that everyone else seem to be penalized by discontent, as if they're being punished for craving a brighter life. I've been knocked down so many times I can't remember the number plates, she said once.

Our natural and happiest life is when we lose ourselves in the exquisite absorption of home.

I appreciate and enjoy my age.

i hope i die warmed by the life that i tried to live

The perfect size is happy" -Garvey

Son, don't mind what's missing. Count allthat's free: friendship, laughter, all thelove your heart can carry, and time -- count time.

Round still, but that's fine. Feeling good outside and in. Maybe I'm not thin, but skinny isn't perfect. The perfect size is happy.

Maybe I'm not thin, but skinny isn't perfect. The perfect size is happy.

Jealousy is a waste of energy...focus on what I have, not what I don't.

when you can't climb your way out of such a hole, you tend to crouch down and call it home…

Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you'll be left without bread and without views

and sank into the profound slumber which comes only to such fortunate folk as are troubled neither with mosquitoes nor fleas nor excessive activity of brain.

A adormit bu?tean, cum dorm numai acei ferici?i care nu sufer? nici de hemoroizi, nici de purici ?i nici de vreo agerime prea mare a min?ii.

Tchítchikov deu a ela uma moedinha de cobre, e a menina foi caminhado para casa, bem contente por ter andando na boleira da caleche.

And at such moments his eyes would grow winning, and his features assume an expression of intense satisfaction. Yet never did these projects pass beyond the stage of debate. Likewise there lay in his study a book with the fourteenth page permanently turned down. It was a book which he had been reading for the past two years!