Quotes About Contentment

Ä°nsan özlemini çektiÄŸi sevinçlere ulaÅŸamad??? zaman s?k?l?r.

Il s'en dégage un bonheur espiègle qu'on associe rarement aux ancêtres disparus. Ils recevaient de la vie moins que nous n'en recevons, mais ils en attendaient beaucoup moins aussi, et ils cherchaient moins que nous à régenter l'avenir. Nous sommes les générations arrogantes qui sont persuadées qu'un bonheur durable leur a été promis à la naissance - promis ? mais par qui donc ? »

My greed goes no further than having something to drink, clothing on my back and shelter for the night.

Il y a des gens qui sont heureux du bonheur des autres, même s'ils ne le partagent que brièvement, et très partiellement, et de l'extérieur. Et il y en a d'autres qui se sentent agressés par le bonheur des autres.

Beauty is the feeling of the soul. Beauty arises when soul is satisfied.

It would be enough; as an alibi for a life, it would do; she would not need to apologize for how she had spent her time on this earth.

Be happy. Decide to be happy. If you want to be happy, be happy! No one cares if you're happy or not, so why wait for permission? And did it really matter if you had been deeply unhappy in your past? Who but you remembered that?

Minimifidian (n.) A person who has the bare minimum of faith (in something). To the minimifidian the secret to happiness lies in the doctrine of lowered expectations. Which is not the worst way to go through life; it's hard to be disappointed when you never expect anything. Minionette

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

A tortoise's shell is a house of the poverty and if the tortoise is taken to the wealthy town, it will still be living in its house of poverty.

I have been lonely in my life but never when drinking strong coffee, wearing my fleecy slippers, and standing in my own kitchen.

When I read that I thought, I am almost fifty years old and the rest of my life will be love and loss, and when I look down the road, I see a fat old woman and her dog, is what I see.

he felt about a meal in a restaurant the way people feel about money and good health: always better to have it.

We eat a couple of cookies in bed and I point out that there's been a change (not a bad thing but still…) in Rachel Maddow's lip gloss and he admires my keen eye and we brush the cookie crumbs onto the floor because no one is watching. I plump my pillow so vigorously, it knocks everything off my nightstand, and he laughs and says that I'm a danger to myself and others. Those moments are all I want. I want a life of this. He sighs and I sigh.

Then the children went to bed, or at least went upstairs, and the men joined the women for a cigarette on the porch, absently picking ticks engorged like grapes off the sleeping dogs. And when the men kissed the women good night, and their weekend whiskers scratched the women's cheeks, the women did not think shave, they thought stay .

There's an old Southern saying that if you're worried about your weight, clothes, or getting old, then you don't have any real problems.

When people ask me how we've lived past one hundred, I say, 'Honey, we never married. We never had husbands to worry us to death! A. Elizabeth (Bessie) Delany

It wasn't just the awe of celebrity that moved you; celebrity usually exudes entitlement more than it does peace.

Maybe we make too much of a big deal about being happy. Maybe we should all just find a way to be content with life, you know? Because that's not a bad place to be. Content.

That didn't stop her from being over-the-moon happy for Sierra and Cole. They were perfect

Peace means no one is worried about anyone else's cookie...in this moment we are all quietly content with the cookies we have.

Sometimes the small dreams were all a person needed to live.

If it feels good, enjoy it. If it doesn't, adjust your position until it does.

Don't worry about being good enough, Patrick. Just worry about being happy. Whoever makes you happy, that's who's good enough for you.