Quotes About Contentment

As for me, I would ratherBe a worm in a wild apple than a son of man.

I have grown to believeA stone is a better pillow than many visions.

I just wanted to make you happy," he said. "Are you happy?" "I've been happy a couple of times. What can I do so that you can join me?" He laced his fingers through hers and holding her hands, stretched her arms up above her head, holding them there. "Baby, you don't have to do anything but be present.

Just living is not enough... One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. —Hans Christian Andersen

All our friends were rich and they worried about having the most, spending the most, trying to figure out how it could make them the best. They trusted no one. You know that silly saying, he who dies with the most toys wins? I think for a lot of people it's actually true.

Now I don't own anything I can't afford to lose because I don't want to die one day trying to protect something I never should've cared about in the first place.

Because that's the thing with getting what you want: all that yearning and dreaming and fantasizing leaves a great big hole that can only be filled with more yearning and dreaming and fantasizing.

The end of starvation is quite delicious.

In our old age, smaller pleasures assume greater importance, don't you think?

you very much, and now I'll take

When you don't have much, having less isn't so bad.

I've never thought much about whether I was happy or if I had fun as a child. I was a so-so girl who lived with a so-so family in a so-so village. I didn't know that there might be another way to live, and I didn't worry about it either.

I came here to be happy, and I'm going to be happy. If I smile, then maybe I can convince my body just how happy I am.

If there is happiness at age three, it will last until you reach eighty.

Because inside we still carry the dreams of what could have been, of what should have been, of what we wish could still be. This doesn't mean we aren't content. We are content, but the romantic longings of our girlhood have never entirely left us. It's like Yen-Yen said all those years ago: 'I look in the mirror and I'm surprised by what I see.' I look in the mirror and still expect to see my Shanghai-girl self- not the wife and mother I've become.

Tuhan memang menciptakan perempuan, namun Dia lupa menciptakan kebahagiaan.

Si a los tres años eres feliz, serás feliz a los ochenta.»

I think the truth to living fully is to appreciate what we have, day by day, regardless of what we know might come our way.

You are one of the wealthiest women of the city, Gabriella.' I smiled. Because like, two months ago, I was begging Mom to borrow thirty bucks for a sweater. Rich. I could get into that.

Nothing is ever perfect, he wanted to say. Wanting everything to be perfect is a recipe for misery.

You'll find true happiness in the smallest things.

Nothing you buy will make you feel as good as money in the bank.

When you are able to embrace the reality that in any given moment you have everything you need, you'll find a way to be happy with what you have.

All she needed now was a happy ending.