Quotes About Contentment

Take It and Like It

I'm one of those unlucky people who had a happy childhood.

Sometimes there can be more to life than making a profit, Dorothy.

I'm starting to think paradise isn't eternal contentment. It's more like there's something eternal about feeling contented. There's no such thing as eternal life, because you're never going to outrun time, but you can still escape time if you're contented, because then time doesn't matter.

Even then, when the hike was perfect, I would wonder, 'Now what?' And take a picture. Take another picture. Like a man with a photogenic girlfriend he didn't love.

I'm telling you that I will be all right without you. Everything we have is temporary, the joy, the suffering, everything. I had the joy of experiencing your goodness for a very long time. It was enough. I have no right to ask for more.

You see a person with kids," she said, "and you see how happy they are to be a parent, and you're attracted to their happiness. Impossibility is attractive. You know, the safety of dead-ended things.

I'm starting to think paradise isn't eternal contentment. It's more like there's something eternal about feeling contented. There's no such thing as eternal life, because you're never going to outrun time, but you can still escape time if you're contented, because then time doesn't matter. Does that make any sense?

I'm starting to think paradise isn't eternal contentment. It's more like there's something eternal about feeling contented. There's no such thing as eternal life, because you're never going to outrun time, but you can still escape time if you're contented, because then time doesn't matter.

Încep s? cred c? paradisul nu e o mulÈ›umire veÈ™nic?. Ci ma degrab? o stare de mulÈ›umire care face totul s? par? veÈ™nic. Nu exist? via?? veÈ™nic? pentru c? n-o s? câÈ™tigi niciodat? cursa cu timpul, totuÈ™i, dac? eÈ™ti mulÈ›umit, poÈ›i sc?pa de timp, pentru c? ajunge s? nu mai conteze.

Dogs again had it right. They didn't trouble themselves with mysteries that could never be solved anyway.

A person accustoms himself to what he is, after all, and if he's lucky he learns to hold in somewhat lower esteem all other ways of being, so as not to spend life envying them.

She'd visited the Continent five times on vacation and twice on business trips with Alfred, so about a dozen times altogether, and to friends planning tours of Spain or France she now liked to say, with a sigh, that she'd had her fill of the place.

His life was much fuller than hers, and the breathing space this gave her was welcome.

Respectless and depraved, maybe. But happily respectless, happily depraved.

he remembered how it would feel to be unmoved by the stores, unwanting of anything in them, and how much dimmer the lights

Happy people didn't tell lies.

Life hasn't signed a contract with you promising to give you everything you want. It just unfolds in its own mysterious and uncontrollable way. The more you stop resisting the way things are, the happier and more peaceful you'll be.

Happiness, Buddha once said, is actually quite simple: The secret is to want what you have and not want what you don't have. Simple

The secret was a hole in the middle of me that every happy thing fell into.

Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn't have to invent a thing.

It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn't think about my life at all.

She said, Do you have more things that you need, or more that you don't need? I said, It depends on what it means to need.

I didn't feel empty. I wished I'd felt empty. ... I wanted to be empty like an overturned pitcher. But I was full like a stone.