Quotes About Contentment

The witch raised one careful eyebrow. "I? I want nothing," she told Hazel. "Don't you see? I want nothing.

Take life as easy as you can," she wrote to Bernhard in January, "health is the best of all gifts.

1. What makes you hate yourself? 2. Where do those things occur least? 3. What makes you feel inspired, serene, amused, excited (in a good way), unself-conscious, passionate, compassionate, and more or less at home? 4. Where are those things?

They say isolation drives you crazy. Sure it does-when you can't get enough of it.

Just because you're miserable doesn't mean you can't enjoy your life.

Time softened on Sundays; it stretched itself out in vast rubbery lengths, and by two o'clock, there was more of it than would ever be needed for anything. There

Don't you mind, Jottie? Don't you want to have what other people have? Just the regular things, you know, like a date or a kiss or a marriage?

And Nature is enough for us, gives us all the light we want and all that we, as yet, are fitted to receive.

beautiful day for you is yourself.

If you cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity, so that finding a penny will literally make your day, then, since the world is in fact planted in pennies, you have with your poverty bought a lifetime of days.

Our problem is that we're ticker watchers of our own lives. Happiness (however we individually define it) is not best measured by looking at the ticker, zooming in and magnifying moment-by-moment or day-by-day movements. We would be better off thinking about our happiness as a long-term stock holding. We would do well to view our happiness through a wide-angle lens, striving for a long, sustaining upward trend in our happiness stock, so it resembles the first Berkshire Hathaway chart.

Une adresse et de l'argent, cétait les seules choses au monde dont j'avais besoin à ce mont-là.

que les procuraba, inmediatamente, sin esfuerzo, la adquisición de las cosas: un suplemento de existencia.

Est-ce une vie ? Oui, sans doute, cela vaut mieux que le vide.

En medio de un torbellino desenfrenado, he experimentado por primera vez una especie de dicha inaudita y he pensado en voz alta puesto que he dicho "soy feliz".

Money cannot buy happiness.

Happiness is not having what you want, it's wanting what you have.

Joy exists only in self-acceptance. Seek perfect acceptance, not a perfect life.

Find peace with yourself by accepting not only what you are, but what you are never going to be.

If you worry about what might be, and wonder what might have been, you will ignore what is.

Worry never climbed a hill, worry never paid a bill, Worry never dried a tear, worry never calmed a fear, Worry never darned a heel, worry never cooked a meal, It never led a horse to water, nor ever did a thing it "oughter."

Worry doesn't help tomorrow's troubles, but it does ruin today's happiness.

Worry is a futile thing, it's somewhat like a rocking chair, Although is keeps you occupied, it doesn't get you anywhere.

Money can't buy happiness, but it sure makes misery easier to live with.