Quotes About Contentment

Must protect my little pockets of happiness.

It's like Charlie told the cop. For this old man, this is home.

no matter how hard you try you will never be perfect so just except it.

Because I am exactly where I should be, doing exactly what I should be doing. That is peace.

Because I am exactly where I should be, doing exactly what I should be doing. That is peace. Eat." Peter

Life doesn't have to be only anxiety about what's gone wrong, and complaints about the world around you.

Only, don`t mistake a new place for a new you. I`ve done that more than once. You asked me before why I stay here. Maybe that`s why, he said, now that I think about it. Might as well deal with myself right here. It`s as good a place as any.

And I'll dream about living there one day myself, about boats and bicycles and water, and a dog running next to me on the road, in the green, green afternoon light.

When do you think you're leaving? I asked. I don't know. Probably soon. Got what I came here for. Even though we didn't go back to your old house? That was only part of it, he said. Not the main thing. A few more big flakes of snow drifted down from the starlit sky. And what was the main thing? This, he said. Right here.

Sometimes, we just have to be happy with what people can offer us. Even if it's not what we want, at least it's something.

There's something nice about the silence of a car ride in the dark, going home. When you were tired of the radio and conversation, and it was okay to just be alone with your thoughts and the road ahead. If you're that comfortable with someone, you don't have to talk.

It was unrealistic to expect to be constantly in the happiest place. In real life, you're lucky just to be always somewhere nearby.

The truth was, there was no way everything could be the Best. Sometimes, when it came to events and people, it had to be okay to just be .

When you don't know where you're going, maybe it wasn't such a bad thing to have more than you need.

It was just perfect, just right all at once.

Sometimes, fewer choices can be a good thing.

I sat up, sliding them off, and the quiet around me did not, for once, seem empty and vast. Instead, for the first time in a while, it felt like it already was full.

I'm starting to think, though, that some things never get that. The replay, and all. So at some point you have to make peace with it as it is, not keep waiting for a chance to change it

I'd been through so much, falling short again and again, and only recently had found a place where who I was, right now, was enough.

Once, this had been the life I'd wanted. Even chosen. Now, though, I couldn't believe that there had been a time when this kind of monotony and silence, this most narrow of existences, had been preferable. Then again, once, I'd never known anything else.

Quiet and incredible. I really envy that.

Life's too short to worry about the little things. Enjoy what you have today, not what you might get tomorrow

Anyway, it was unrealistic to expect to be constantly in the happiest place. In real life, you're lucky just to be always somewhere nearby.

She'd wanted so much for me: the moon and more. But maybe, right now, the moon was enough.