Quotes About Contentment

The life you want is right here, right now.

I can see why some people become "beach bunnies": you don't have to think about things or even talk when you're on the beach. You just sit here and feel good about being alive.

A relationship isn't going to make me survive. It's the cherry on top.

I really am pretty happy with what God gave me.

You know, I've got wrinkles on my forehead and smile lines, but what's wrong with that? I love to smile.

I'm not sitting dwelling about the past or stressing or fretting about something in the future.

Don't hunger for what you can't have, she admonished herself. Take pleasure in what you can. Such thoughts had got her through the worst days.

I don't need the bowls to give me peace anymore," Ian said. "I have you. And Jamie, and Belle. If all the Ming bowls in the world were smashed, I'd still have you." [...] "You broke the bowl, and it is gone. But you are here, and whole. Nothing else matters.

What's more, he could fall asleep with her and wake up with her, spend the day with her, go to bed with her, and begin the wonderful ritual all over again. His

What's wrong with you? I asked myself. You are a happy person. You are an upbeat sort of person. Men smile at you on the subway, women ask you what shampoo you use. Cheer up for Christ's sake, I told myself, relax, you're fine, be happy, Girl. When I talk to myself I call myself Girl.

You have to open up to the world and learn optimism...Contentment with the past, happiness with the present, and hope for the future. Learned optimisim.

Happiness was useless to me. It was heartache that filled my purse. What happy man has need of Shakespeare?

I was only glad to be saved and never once thought to ask why.

The greenest of pastures are right here on earth.

For the first time in a long time, he didn't think of the past. And of all the things he'd lost. He thought only of the present, and what he had. And how it was so much more than he deserved. And he prayed then that he would never, ever lose it.

What happy man has need of Shakespeare?

Why do you always want to read about other people's lives, Matt? Ain't your own good enough for you

You'd live happily ever after. On nothing but love and pastries.

I was a woman alone, yet never lonely. I was enough for myself. Nay, more than enough; I was a feast. Had Henry known, I would surely have gone to the block. To be happy without him was the highest of treasons. [Anna of Cleves]

She was safe. She was warm and well fed. She was furious.

Most of the mess that is called history comes about because kings and presidents cannot be satisfied with a nice chicken and a good loaf of bread.

And the rest is happily ever After.

And sitting there, sea drifting in around them, Wolf had understood for the first time what kind of life he wanted to live with Faith. Maybe they wouldn't rise up into the sky the way he'd thought, maybe the real thing was doing what his parents had done, pay the rent, read the paper, hell, maybe that was the dare. To live--day in, day out. Just live.

Alone by choice on Saturday nights, writing by an open window in his studio apartment, Gregory had experienced a kind of euphoria: a swelling, bursting, yearning hunger that had something in common with lust but included everyone, from the revelers outside his window to the carousers down the hall. He was where he wanted to be, and needed nothing else.