Quotes About Contentment

Maybe the truth is there's a little bit of loser in all of us you know, being happy isn't having everything in your life being perfect. Maybe it's about stringing together all the little things. Making those count more then the bad stuff. Maybe we just get through it and that's all we can ask for.

She liked the life she had. She loved habits. She craved a day with nothing in it, a long, quiet stretch of hours in the studio.

The happiness at getting what you want is not usually commensurate with the worry leading up to it.

She wondered again about her inclination to wish for things that made her so deeply unhappy.

Sometimes he felt sure that the key to happiness was a poor memory.

Knowing where she was in the world, even if he never touched her, gave him a deep satisfaction, and he half despised himself for being satisfied with so little.

This is the most beautiful piece of advice I can offer. I you don't have what you want now, you don't have what you want.

Maybe happiness didn't have to be about the big, sweeping circumstances, about having everything in your life in place. Maybe it was about stringing together a bunch of small pleasures.

Treasure in such large amounts stopped feeling precious

She discarded whole chunks of life that obsessed other people. She didn't torture people she loved, nor did she hunger for them. She kept it simple.

maybe happiness didn't have to be about the big, sweeping circumstances, about having everything in your life in place. maybe its about stringing together a bunch of small pleasures.

Maybe happiness didn't have to be about the big, sweeping circumstances, about having everything in your life in place.

Maybe happiness didn't have to be about big, sweeping circumstances, about having everything in your life in place. Maybe it was about stringing together a bunch of small pleasures.

Maybe you think you'll be entitled to more happiness later by forgoing all of it now, but it doesn't work that way. Happiness takes as much practice as unhappiness does. It's by living that you live more.

That seemed a sad thing about human nature - how much more time we spend thinking about what we don' have, or have lost, than about what we have.

Lena remembered the old adage about knowing whether you'd chosen the right career by how you felt on Sunday night.

The most beautiful place in the world, is anyplace. Anyplace you can hold your head up. Anyplace you can be proud of who you are. But I though, where you love somebody a whole lot, and you know that person loves you, that's the most beautiful place in the world.

It was one of the best nights of my life.

Today was the kind of day when I couldn't imagine anything more worthwhile!

I had a lot to be thankful for.

I looked at Andrew and at Nannie. I loved them and the rest of my family very much. I loved my friends too. For now that was enough love for me.

And, I had to admit it - I was pretty proud of myself.

I was feeling fine without it.

Cat-food breath or not, I was thrilled to have Tigger back - and Logan, too.