Quotes About Contentment

Es difícil no creerse superior cuando uno sufre, y el ver gente feliz nos da náuseas.

Qué insípido hubiera sido ser feliz!

Admitía que se puede ser feliz sin dejar de estar triste.

Of all the joys which are slowly abandoning me, sleep is one of the most precious, though one of the most common, too. A man who sleeps but little and poorly, propped on many a cushion, has ample time to meditate upon this particular delight.

Vous avez cru qu'il suffisait d'être parfaite pour être heureuse ; j'ai cru suffisant, pour être heureux, de n'être plus coupable.

J'ai vécu durant ces quelques semaines aussi libre d'inquiétudes que si je devais mourir le lendemain, ou vivre toujours.

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Je m'accordais, chaque soir, un moment de musique qui n'était qu'à moi seul. Certes, ce plaisir solitaire est un plaisir stérile, mais aucun plaisir n'est stérile lorsqu'il remet notre être d'accord avec la vie. (p. 80-81)

La castidad, en la que antaño veía una superstición que debía combatirse, le parecía ahora una de las caras de la serenidad: saboreaba ese frío conocimiento que uno tiene de los seres cuando ya no los desea.

Waiting to be 'better' is the wrong approach. It's learning to live with it.

Sometimes you get what you want and sometimes you get what you need and sometimes you get what you get.

A large battalion of my thoughts was marching determinedly on its way to Annoyance but it was distracted and took a wrong turn at Adam and found, to its surprise, that it had ended up in the entirely different destination of Dreamy Contentment.

Sometimes you get what you want and sometimes you get what you need and sometimes you get what you get. The

As if, within their high-pitched cries and songs, there are coded threats.     'Sometimes you get what you want and sometimes you get what you need and sometimes you get what you get.' Extract

All that I knew for sure is, I wanted to be as happy as possible for as long as I'd got, and my every second was so much better with Hugh than without him.

That's right," Karen said, clutching the bag to her chest and looking like Gollum with the Ring. "It's only stuff.

Call off the search for a "why", Rachel,' she finished on. 'You don't need it.

Sometimes nothing is the very best thing one can do.

Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.

The cure for loneliness is solitude.

When we attach value to things that aren't love—the money, the car, the house, the prestige—we are loving things that can't love us back. We are searching for meaning in the meaningless.

Enlightened people don't have anything we don't have. They have perfect love inside, and so do we. The difference is that they don't have anything else.

Meaning doesn't lie in things. Meaning lies in us. When we attach value to things that aren't love—the money, the car, the house, the prestige—we are loving things that can't love us back. We are searching for meaning in the meaningless. Money, of itself, means nothing. Material things, of themselves, mean nothing. It's not that they're bad. It's that they're nothing.

only what you have not given can be lacking in any situation.