Quotes About Contentment

What ensued will go down in the record of my heart as one of those rare times in life when you finally rest—when you put down the burden of striving and a sense of well-being spreads like honey into every corner of your consciousness. There was nowhere else to go, nothing to do, no one to be—just now, just this precious day, these shared breaths with a friend.

The cure for unhappiness is happiness, I don't care what anyone says.

All she really wanted was to go to her apartment, to her bedroom, to the back of her walk-in closet, to sit among the shoes.

Enough fine weather and money and a few memorable meals make any place desirable. As soon as I realized that, New York lost much of its charm for me.

Enough fine weather and money and a few memorable meals make any place desirable.

You don't have to,' I say. 'You are normal. You have a job with tenure. You have Lucia and this house.' I cannot say the rest that I think, that he is easy in his body, that he sees and hears and tastes and feels what others do, so his reality matches theirs.

Aching for one thing and enjoying something else aren't mutually exclusive.

i want to live. simple as that. we all do, don't we?

life's too short, after all, isn't it? not to do the things you want - the things that make you happy? hannah had been thinking that quite a lot t. oday

I am where I am and it's the perfect place to start. I have what I have and it's more than enough. I'm creating what I'm creating by what I think, say and do. I'm going where I'm going, and a thousand angels are with me too.

The key to a happy life isn't to manipulate the conditions around me so I can feel better, the key is to change the meaning I give it and find happiness, no matter what's going on!

We find comfort in routine and in the warmth of our own living rooms.

Living isn't just about loving someone. Living is enjoying what you have as you have it.

Why do people think being with someone is the answer to everything?

So, you're telling me that no matter what, you can't be happy? Well, darling, it's no wonder you're miserable. It's what you want...So then try (to be happy).

Queres ser feliz? - Sim. Não. Não sei. Que tipo de pergunta é essa? - Apenas uma simples - disse ela - queres ser feliz? - Eu não... acho que não sei como. - Só tu podes aprender. - disse ela.

I know what it's like to wake up in the morning, every morning, with a smile in my heart.

I know now there should have been no higher beatitude than to live in the presence of an unselfish, unasking, vital love.

The year that followed - was it the happiest year of his own life? He often thought so, even knowing that such a thing was foolish to claim about any year of one's life: but in his memory, that particular year held the sweetness of a time that contained no thoughts of a beginning and no thoughts of an end..

You're an easy woman to please," he had said to her. And she had said, "You may be the first person to think that.

There was something about her that seemed deeply—almost fundamentally—comfortable inside herself, the way I think a person is when they have been loved by their parents.

I would give it all up, all the success I have had as a writer, all of it I would give up—in a heartbeat I would give it up—for a family that was together and children who knew they were dearly loved by both their parents who had stayed together and who loved each other too.

She pictured a dandelion gone by, the white, almost airless pieces of her family scattered so far. The key to contentment was to never ask why; she had learned that long ago.

The key to contentment was to never ask why; she had learned that long ago.