Quotes About Contentment

La verdad es que cada etapa de la vida es perfecta, si realmente nos permitimos vivir en ella.

Cuando nos aceptamos tal como somos, y en el lugar donde estamos, disponemos de mayor energía para entregársela a la vida. No perdemos tiempo intentando cambiar las cosas.

Material things, of themselves, mean nothing. It's not that they're bad. It's that they're nothing.

Cualquiera que sea el lugar al que vayamos mañana, es importante agradecer el lugar donde nos encontramos y disfrutar los frutos de hoy.

There are certain winter days when bed and bath seem to be the only two tolerable places in the world.

I am not so sure about that," he returned. "No one is contented in this world, I believe. There is always something left to desire, and the last thing longed for always seems the most necessary to happiness." "The truest philosophy," said Heliobas, "is not to long for anything in particular, but to accept everything as it comes, and find out the reason of its coming.

It's far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone — so far.

Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.

It felt very good to have him walking beside her. Good like rest and quiet, like something you could live without but you needed anyway. That you had to learn how to miss, and then you'd never stop missing it.

That sound of settling into the sheets and the covers has to be one of the best things in the world. Sleep is a mercy. You can feel it coming on, like being swept up in something.

It's better to have nothing,' the children were saying.

I believe the sin of covetise is that pang of resentment you may feel when even the people you love best have what you want and don't have.

You never bother me, Glory. It's remarkable how much you don't bother me. Almost unprecedented.

I don't know why solitude would be a balm for loneliness, but that is how it always was for me in those days

It seemed to her there was a peacefulness about him that came with resignation, with the extinction of that last hope, like a perfect humility undistracted by the possible, the unrealized, the yet to be determined.

It was the kind of light that rests on your shoulders the way a cat lies on your lap. So familiar.

She used to ask herself, What more could I wish? But she always distrusted that question, because she knew there were limits to her experience that precluded her knowing what there was to be wished.

In that eternity of his, where everybody will be happy, how could he feel the lack of her, the loss of her?

Schon bald nach ihrer Heirat war sie zu dem Schluss gekommen, dass Liebe zur Hälfte aus einer Sehnsucht bestand, die durch Besitz nicht zu lindern war.

Clean and acceptable. It would be something to know what that felt like, even for an hour or two.

The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.' There are pleasures to be found where you would never look for them. That's a bit of fatherly wisdom, but it's also the Lord's truth, and a thing I know from my own long experience.

I thought I had learned not to set my heart on anything.

I didn't feel very much at home in the world, that was a fact. Now I do.

I have been thinking lately how I have loved my physical life.