Quotes About Contentment

A volte i piccoli sogni avevano grandezza, pensò con dignità. A volte, i piccoli sogni erano tutto quello di cui aveva bisogno una persona per vivere

Yes. You couldn't make anyone else happy. He tried to tell himself that, and drink through the buzzing little voice saying that, for a few short weeks, he actually had made someone else happy. And Owen had made him happy too.

Well, sometimes small dreams had grandeur, he thought with dignity. Sometimes, the small dreams were all a person needed to live.

You're not even looking at the view, Xan." "I'm looking at all I need to.

Nothing," he said softly. "It's just a real nice turtle, that's all." "You

THE BEST relationships are made of quiet times,

All his family was happy, and he could finally relax enough to go into A-fib.

This was why men fell asleep when they came. They wanted to remember life this way.

If I'm lucky, someday I'll figure a way out of porn and end up with a guy who works at a gas station but doesn't mind my fifty-dozen allergies and big mouth.

She sighed. "Okay. But unless something else good comes along, I'm stopping at eight!

I like knowing that people live good lives. You know dancers—it's all drama and pain and bad relationships and obsession. I like knowing that your life didn't hurt. It makes me happy.

You should be too busy watering your own grass to notice if someone else's is greener.

Happiness, to some, elation Is, to others, mere stagnation.

Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils.

A black cat among roses, phlox, lilac-misted under a quarter moon, the sweet smells of heliotrope and night-scented stock. The garden is very still. It is dazed with moonlight, contented with perfume...

While dissatisfaction implies either rejection or frustrated pursuit of satisfaction, unsatisfaction is something more like acceptance combined with anticipation. It is acknowledgement of desire without the demand that it be satisfied--a kind of openness that doesn't ask for closure. It is desire that can live with deferral, an embrace of the God-shaped vacuum in us and a commitment to stop trying to make it full, a healthy hunger that is content to wait for the feast.

The man who worries morning and night about the dandelions in the lawn will find great relief in loving the dandelions. —L. H. BAILEY, Manual of Gardening, 1910

Wealth and beauty-whatever dangers they brought, one never wished them away.

Sabeis, muchachos? No creais que al morir recordareis hazañas, ni sucesos importantes que os hayan ocurrido. No creais que recordareis grandes aventuras, ni siquiera momentos felices que aún podais vivir. Solo cosas como ésta: una tarde así, unas copas de vino, esas rosas cubiertas de agua.

I see the glass half full and thank God for what I have.

Ungrateful people forget what they are not grateful for.

Great Bacchus every trouble cures; Then drink as long as life endures. For, whilst we drain the rosy bowl, 'Tis all a sunshine of the soul!

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards; and curiosity itself can be vivid and wholesome only in proportion as the mind is contented and happy.

It is not customary to love what one has