Quotes About Contentment

Ceux qui s'aiment ne se sentent ni ne se voient vieillir ; les vifs plaisirs qui étaient les leurs autrefois sont devenus des souvenirs dont ils sont heureux et fiers ; l'entente avec un être de l'autre sexe, sans la moindre réticence, sans une seule querelle en deux décennies, est à tout âge une félicité.

There's more to life than movies.

You know, all that really matters is that the people you love are happy and healthy. Everything else is just sprinkles on the sundae.

When you no longer worry about the future, and no longer have regrets about the past, you exist purely in the moment. If you concentrate on that moment you instinctively know, that as long as you have life you have hope. Enjoy the moment. Breathe easily. Relax.

There is little doubt that those who get the most from life are those who look for the wonder in even the smallest things they do. Cultivate this skill and you'll find peace and satisfaction as well.

Recognise the difference between having and living.

The older I get, the more I just prefer to sleep.

I'm happily single.

The older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be. I tend to walk a middle ground.

Just watching my cats can make me happy.

I am so blessed. I've been way over-blessed. At 64 years old, I look forward to going to bed every night so I can wake up in the morning and see what blessing is going to come my way that day. Because you never, ever know what God's got in store for you.

Loneliness is not the worst emotion

And I don't go outside of the house if I can help it.

How pleasant to read uncompromised by purpose.

And I don't go out of the house if I can help it.

can any of you by worrying add a single hour to your span of life?

Life meant reducing expectations and making-do with what one had. What was the point of boo-hooing, as she saw it, when "no man is a prince, except in the imagination"? It was the same thing Marcy had said: "No one is as good as you think they are.

Life meant reducing expectations and making-do with what one had.

If I can write one sentence, simple and true every day, I'll be satisfied.

You make your life with someone and you love that person and you think it's enough. But it's never enough, is it? I couldn't say. I don't know anything about love anymore.

You make your life with someone and you love that person and you think it's enough. But it's never enough, is it?

It was terrible to feel so empty, as if I were nothing. Why couldn't I be happy? And just what was happines anyway?

We were here together now, I told myself. Everything was lovely and fine. I should just know it and hold on to it and be happy. I would. I would try.

He read aloud to me as I curled next to him, both of our bodies in a warm arc of light. For nearly ten years I'd wanted this…this exactly. Is he really here? I thought. Am I? Denys read on, his voice rising and falling, while a leopard moth that had got caught in the curtains stopped struggling for a moment, and realized it was free.