Quotes About Contentment

Loving yourself is about as likely as tickling yourself.

JAMES 1:2-4 My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.

Too early…too late. A last message to live in the present. To accept the past and not rush the future.

Everyone was just trying to find a way to be happy, to feel fulfilled. The manner in which they searched for that state differed wildly, but the prize remained the same.

For in this world, one life was enough for any man.

it sucks to get old...but there's always beer

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

Marilah kita bergembira. Ingatlah bahwa kemalangan yang paling sulit ditanggung adalah yang tidak pernah menimpa kita.

Closure is for jars, books, and closet doors.

Why is it so difficult to assemble those things that really matter in life and to dwell among them only? I am referring to certain landscapes, persons, beasts, books, rooms, meteorological conditions, fruits.

It's all right," she said, a sad smile forming on her lips. "I have everything I need.

Mere pleasure is at best but fleeting; happiness is abiding, for in the recollection thereof is renewed.

The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time

An elegant sufficiency, content,Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books.

That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others.

One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.

The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry.

The silence between us was happy and strange, connected by the cord and the icy voices thinly echoing. "You don't have to talk," she said. "If you don't feel like it." Her eyelids were heavy and her voice was drowsy and like a secret. "People always want to talk but I like being quiet.

Es muy ruso quejarse continuamente de lo mal que van las cosas. Si la vida te va bien, cállatelo. No vayas a tentar al diablo...

It's crazy," she'd said, "but I'd be perfectly happy if I could sit looking at the same half dozen paintings for the rest of my life. I can't think of a better way to go insane.

It's crazy," she'd said, "but I'd be perfectly happy if I could sit looking at the same half dozen paintings for the rest of my life. I can't think of a better

Those first days before classes started I spent alone in my whitewashed room, in the bright meadows of Hampden. And I was happy in those first days as really I'd never been before, roaming like a sleepwalker, stunned and drunk with beauty.

Not everyone was meant to be No. 1.

Beauty, my first girlfriend said to me, is that inner quality often associated with great amounts of leisure time.