Quotes About Contentment

He who avoids complaint invites happiness.

There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.

I imagine what it must be like to stay hidden, disappear in the dusky nothing and stay still in the night. It's not sadness, though it may sound like it. I'm thinking about people and trees and how I wish I could be silent more, be more tree than anything else, less clumsy and loud, less crow, more cool white pine, and how it's hard not to always want something else, not just to let the savage grass grow.

Say we spend our last moments staring at each other, hands knotted together, clutching the dog, watching the sky burn. Say, It doesn't matter. Say, That would be enough. Say you'd still want this: us alive, right here, feeling lucky.

Even now, I don't know much about happiness. I still worry and want an endless stream of more, but some days I can see the point in growing something, even if it's just to say I cared enough.

I will play on this blessed earth until I die.

Sometimes, you have to look around at the life you've made and sort of nod at it, like someone moving their head up and down to a tune they like.

I loved them: my own bright dead things. I'm thirty-five and remember all that I've done wrong. Yesterday I was nice, but in truth I resented the contentment of the field. Why must we practice this surrender? What I mean is: there are days I still want to kill the carrots because I can.

I ask T to tell me what to write about, she says, Saturation, and I think of that feeling when you're really full, or life is full and you can't think of anything else that could fit in it, but then even more sky comes and more days and there is so much to remember and swallow.

Two female horses, retired mares, separated by a sliding barn door, nose each other. Neither of them will get pregnant again, their job is to just be a horse.

We have produced a world of contented bodies and discontented minds.

Keep your lives free from the love of money, and be content with what you have; for he has said, "I will never leave you or forsake you." So we can say with confidence, "The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. Hebrews 13:5-6

For once, there was nothing to be disappointed in. Which left me with just the feeling of the disappointment itself.

I'm so happy to be in a committed relationship.

The million different answers to 'Why not let it go?' have just as many good ones among them as the million you can get from 'Why should I let it go?

Nobody has it all, but for me to even come close is amazing.

Kto mi?o?ci nie zna, ten ?yje szcz??liwy, I noc ma spokojn?, i dzie? niet?skliwy.

Kas nežino meil?s, tas tikrai laimingas Nekankins to naktys, dienos ilgesingos.

And reality matters because it is the only thing that can satisfy us.

You must value the possibilities that wealth can offer you more than the pleasures that money can buy you.

It definitely has learning a lesson about the way you're living your life. I wouldn't compare our movie to that, but it has a structure where it's about a man who doesn't appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that.

I'm not looking to get away from anything. I like what I've done. I like what I get to do and I enjoy working with my friends. I loved those movies, but this is incredible.

Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.

shrug. I don't feel that. I'd settle for being ignored, left alone, unjudged. Unharried. I just want to live my life. I don't need anyone to understand it. 'Do you think? It strikes me as the ultimate in self-absorption, hoping for understanding from others to give meaning to your life. Get over yourself, I say.