Quotes About Contentment

But we are all fortunate in one way or another. The task for most of us is to identify in what way that is, would you not agree?" 81.

and although she'd glibly remarked that you couldn't stand still, was this actually true or was it a hollow axiom as false and misleading as any other trite saying? Why should one not stand still? If the position in which one found oneself standing was a satisfactory and comfortable one? She felt no need, no need at all to move on from being Mma Ramotswe of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, wife that great mechanic, Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni.

How sorry she felt for white people, who couldn't do any of this, and who were always dashing around and worrying themselves over things that were going to happen anyway. What use was it having all that money if you could never sit still or just watch your cattle eating grass? None, in her view; none at all, and yet they did not know it. Every so often you met a white person

She knew that for many people this was their greatest ambition: to have a partner and a child, to live the domestic life, but she had never thought it would be enough for her. Yet it was.

Hello, honey," he said. "You are a very nice fat lady. I like a soft mattress." She drew in her breath. "Then go home and lie down on your bed," she said. "Go back to your wife. I know her, by the way.

Mma Ramotswe being sad was like a day with no sun, a day with no birdsong at dawn, a day without tea…One could go on, but the essential thing was that Mma Ramotswe should not look sad.

Everything could always be worse,' she would say, 'and so be grateful that things are only as bad as they are.' She

A life without moments of unhappiness would be monotonous, I would have thought.

most dogs seemed contented enough, and often seemed rather happier than the humans attached to them.

Thus heaven's gift to us is this: That habit takes the place of bliss.

Tell him that riches will not procure for you a single moment of happiness. Luxury consoles poverty alone, and at that only for a short time, until one becomes accustomed to it.

He's happy now, he's almost sane.

Habit to us is given from above: it is a substitute for happiness.

Habit is heaven's gift to us: a substitute for happiness.

oamenii, nefiind niciodat? mulÈ›umiÈ›i de prezent, È™i înv??ând s? aib? puÈ›ine speranÈ›e în viitor, înfrumuseÈ›eaz? cu toate florile închipuirii tot ce a trecut È™i nu se mai întoarce.

I would make my home, with joy and gladness, in a dark forest.

O hábito é a dádiva mais alta, Quando a felicidade nos falta.

Many of us spend half our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing.

So happy to be home I feel as if I'm swimming in syrup.

The world looks better when your belly is full, brighter and more hopeful. After

You don't have to do anything, you only have to be what you are.

I won't think about it now, there's nothing I can do about any of those things.

You need to add a new voice inside your head, one that says, "So what?" What if you don't get married by 30? So what? What if you haven't paid off your loans or debt by 35? So what? What if you're not a stand-out success by 28? So what? If you were to achieve everything you wanted in life by the age of 30, then what would you do for the next fifty years? You have time. You don't have to get to everything right now.

Sometimes one has suffered enough to have the right to never say: I am too happy.