Quotes About Contentment

Spend lavishly on creams. Wash your hair with henna at the first sign of gray. Never spend one minute thinking about what you do not have. And most importantly, indulge in everything but love.

It takes a lot of courage to be happy.

Para que queres tu mais alguns instantes de vida? Para devorar e seres devorado depois? Não estás farto do espetáculo e da luta? Conheces de sobejo tudo o que eu te deparei menos torpe ou menos aflitivo: o alvor do dia, a melancolia da tarde, a quietação da noite, os aspectos da Terra, o sono, enfim, o maior benefício das minhas mãos. Que mais queres tu, sublime idiota?

Os bons amores são cheios de felicidade, porque têm a virtude de não alçarem olhos para as estrelas do céu; contentam-se com ceias à meia-noite e alguns passeios a cavalo ou por mar. (Linha reta e linha curva)

Then I pondered the fact that tight boots are one of the best bits of good fortune on earth, because by making one's feet hurt they give occasion to the pleasure of taking them off. Punish your feet, wretch, then unpunish them and there you have cheap happiness, at the mercy of shoemakers and worthy of Epicurus.'' The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas- Machado de Asis

When neither their property nor their honour is touched the majority of man live content

Men desire novelty to such an extent that those who are doing well wish for a change as much as those who are doing badly.

The fast pace of our lives makes it difficult for us to find grace in the present moment, and when the simple gifts at our fingertips cease to nourish us, we have a tendency to crave the sensational.

If you aren't unhappy sometimes you don't know how to be happy.

If I didn't get fond I could be happy all the time.

It's my worst trouble, getting fond. If I didn't get fond I could be happy all the time.

Do you know how lucky you are?" She smiled rather wryly. "Not most of the time.

Ah," she said, "that's ever so much better," and took both boots and shook them out over the sink. "My stomach is full and I'm warm inside and out and it's time I went home.

your behaviour must be such that when you go to bed at night you will be happy with what you have done during the day

I know our world isn't perfect, Charles, but it's better than this. This isn't the only alternative! It can't be!" "Nobody suffers here," Charles intoned. "Nobody is ever unhappy." "But nobody's ever happy, either," Meg said earnestly. "Maybe if you aren't unhappy sometimes you don't know how to be happy. Calvin, I want to go home.

Maybe if you aren't unhappy sometimes you don't know how to be happy.

It's my worst trouble, getting fond. If I didn't get fond I could be happy all the time.

Just relax and don't worry over things that needn't trouble you," Mrs Whatsit said.

Happiness, he said, warming his hands around a fresh cup of coffee, is a choice. "You have to brew it in yourself. Even from a lump of food, we choose each grain to suit our need. Likewise, in the philosophical manner, we choose to be who we are.

patted her stomach

San?r?m sonunda büyüdüÄŸümü ve herkesi memnun etmenin imkâns?z olduÄŸunu anlad?m. Ben de onun yerine kendimi mutlu etmeye karar verdim.

No point in destroying Wednesday thinking about Friday. This one-day-at-a-time thing really worked. Friday

Start making yourself at home in your life as it is.

On the wall was a dress that I embroidered. It said Ich Habe Genug. Which is a Bach Cantata. Which I once thought meant I've had it, I can't take anymore, give me a break. But I was wrong. It means I have enough. And that is utterly true. I happen to be alive. End of discussion. But I will go out and buy a hat.