Quotes About Contentment

Don't fuss. I love you just as you are, Mercy. I don't need to swallow you whole, I don't need to be in your head at all times. I just need to know that you're there.

He smiled, a wide, joyful expression—and oddly the fangs didn't rob the smile of its charm. "I am at peace, Mercy," he told me. He closed his eyes and quit moving his body. "Just like you told me. I will never be okay again." He didn't sound unhappy about it.

You can feed your wallet, or you can feed your soul, but you seldom can do both at the same time.

And it was easier to have an unrequited love than to get all fussed and dressed and go out on dates every Saturday with men she was never going to fall in love with. So she'd quit dating, quit dressing up—and on the whole she was happier than she'd been before.

His smile grew, and the dimple appeared and … and I kissed him. I rested my body against him, at an angle so I didn't squish the cat, and thought, Here is my happiness. Here is my reason to survive. Here is my home.

She was comfortable enough that she was beginning to suffer from the most chronic condition of slavery— boredom.

Food was good, company better, and if I had been a cat, I'd have preferred.

Hers. He was hers, whispered that part of her that didn't worry about human concerns. Whatever fears Anna had about the rapid changes in her life, her wolf half was very happy with the events of the past few days.

Tag said solemnly, "You can feed your wallet, or you can feed your soul, but you seldom can do both at the same time.

Smiling, I picked up the other two bundles and followed happily after.

Perfect happiness is good for one's soul. It is wonderful for one's temper. However, in my experience, it tends to impair one's wits.

More problems solve themselves if only you can content yourself in patience and wait.

I know you have it in you, Guy," Anne said suddenly at the end of a silence, "the capacity to be terribly happy.

He loved possessions, not masses of them, but a select few that he did not part with. They gave a man self-respect. Not ostentation but quality, and the love that cherished the quality. Possessions reminded him that he existed, and made him enjoy his existence. It was as simple as that. And wasn't that worth something? He existed. Not many people in the world knew how to, even if they had the money. It really didn't take money, masses of money, it took a certain security.

To put human-made objects in their proper place as tools, we must learn the art of contentment.

I almost got married once," said Aunt Harriet wistfully. "Me, too," said Aunt Mattie. "Not me," said Aunt Lou. " I got a dog.

What is perfect? Journey, a thing doesn't have to be perfect to be fine. That goes for a picture. That goes for life....Things can be good enough.

There's three things I've seen in this world that seem to make a body happy or miserable. It's no money or health or any of those other things most people talk about. It's knowing where you fit in this world, being able to go after your dreams, and love.

There's three things I've seen in this world that seem to make a body happy or miserable. It's not money or health or any of those other things most people talk about. It's knowing where you fit in this world, being able to go after your dreams and love.

while happiness is something more personal, something a little more selfish perhaps.

Perfect is close enough.

I think if I could have a boyfriend like my brothers I'd be really happy. But without the brother thing.

The hardest thing to find is peace, though it lay in plain view

If you make something your life's work, make sure it's something you can feel proud of when you're an old relic like me.