Quotes About Contentment

She likes a quiet life, has few close friends, and makes new ones slowly. … I want to work on my next book... and try to be here to garden a little in the fall, and read. I'm married to the man I want to be married to, live in a certain way that I like living. It's very weird to succeed at thirty-nine years old and realize that in the midst of your failure, you were slowly building the life that you wanted anyway.

How to stop rushing from place to place, always looking ahead to the next thing while the moment in front of me slipped away unnoticed.

Helped are those who are content to be themselves; they will never lack mystery in their lives and the joys of self-discovery will be constant.

Like I said...fine with me.

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise

If she come, I be happy. If she don't, I be content. And then I figure this the lesson I was suppose tolearn.

I feel peace with the world.

But if God love me, Celie, I don't have to do all that. Unless I want to. There's a lot of other things I can do that I speck God likes. Like what? I ast. Oh, she say. I can lay back and just admire stuff. Be happy. Have a good time.

If she come, I be happy. If she don't, I be content. And then I figure this the lesson I was suppose to learn.

Si viene, yo feliz. Si no, contenta. Y entonces caigo en que puede que ésta sea la lección que yo tenía que aprender.

You must learn to love only that which cannot be stolen

And I try to teach my heart not to want nothing it can't have.

I am so happy. I got love, I got work, I got money, friends and time.

Don't look like nothing, she say. It ain't a picture show. It ain't something you can look at apart from anything else, including yourself. I believe God is everything, say Shug. Everything that is or ever was or ever will be. And when you can feel that, and be happy to feel that, you've found It.

And there was no entertainment for them at night. They were too poor to own a television set. But they seemed content. Truman with his sculpting and building the recreation center. Lynne writing poems occasionally, reading them to her friends, then tearing them up.

From paradise to paradise I go sweeping; collecting rocks & views; owning nothing but what I feel.

Ahora procuro que mi corazón aprenda a no desear lo que no puede tener.

Now. Is this life or not? I be so calm. If she come, I be happy. If she don't, I be content.

Now. Is this life or not? I be so calm. If she come, I be happy. If she don't, I be content. And then I figure this the lesson I was suppose to learn.

There's a lot of other things I can do that I speck God likes. Like what? I ast. Oh, she say. I can lay back and just admire stuff. Be happy. Have a good time.

What happened to the man I love?'... 'Albert knew as well as me that love would have to go some to be better than ours. Us had the kind of love couldn't be improve. That's what I thought.

Then, just when I know I can live content without Shug, just when Mr. _ done ast me to marry him again, this time in the spirit as well as in the flesh, and just after I say Naw, I still don't like frogs, but let's be friends, Shug write me she coming home. Now. Is this life or not? I be so calm. If she come, I be happy. If she don't, I be content. And then I figure this the lesson I was suppose to learn.

But I don't think us feel old at all. And us so happy. Matter of fact, I think this the youngest us ever felt.

But I don't think us feel old at all. And us so happy. Matter of fact, I think this is the youngest us felt.