Quotes About Contentment

If I fret over tomorrow, I'll have little joy today.

Adaon smiled gravely. "Is there not glory enough in living the days given to us? You should know there is adventure in simply being among those we love and the things we love, and beauty, too.

It is true. Indeed, that is why I dared not speak. I have yearned to be again at the side of my beloved Arianllyn, and my thoughts are with her now. But had I chosen to return, I would ever wonder whether my choice was made through wisdom or following the wishes of my own heart. I see this is as it must be, and the destiny laid upon me. I am content to die here.

I once asked her if she got bored living alone, and she said, 'To say one is bored to be alone is to admit that one has no inner resources.

you have more than you know. And people will want what you have.

they lived happily ever after

But they don't want change. Life here is so orderly, so predictable-so painless. It's what they've chosen.

Annemarie admitted to herself, snuggling there in the quiet dark, that she was glad to be an ordinary person who would never be called upon for courage.

Sometimes I wish they'd ask for my wisdom more often—there are so many things I could tell them; things I wish they would change. But they don't want change. Life here is so orderly, so predictable—so painless. It's what they've chosen.

satisfaction.

I miss it every minute, and I have no wish at all to go back.

Another day will put some other plate on your table, more to your taste, but do not waste the food in front of you.

Are you glad, or sorry?" "About children?" She glanced at his face. He seemed to have no awareness of having hit a sore point dead on. "They just haven't come my way, I guess." The

Don't let fear swallow all your happiness. Don't forget to take joy.

A vida é muito menos assustadora quando se enterram as ambições e se pára de desejar coisas.

I've decided it's important to love the life you get and somehow learn to let go of the life you dreamed of.

It was better to be a wild thing in the lovely marshes, than to have a soul that cried for beautiful things and found not one.

I have everything I thought was important and nothing that really is. -Lily Francone

Just remember, being young is nice, but being old is comfortable.

You can't miss what you never had. And definitely not what you don't understand.

A woman had to choose her own particular unhappiness carefully. That was the only happiness in life: to choose the best unhappiness. An unwise move, good God, you could squander everything.

She knew there were only small joys in life--the big ones were too complicated to be joys when you got all through--and once you realized that, it took a lot of the pressure off.

Everyone these days was defensive about their lives. Everyone had settled.

My mother's capacity for happiness was a small soup bone salting a large pot.