Quotes About Contentment

If I try to say what it is now, it's very simple: I realised the world did not exist for my benefit. It followed that the ratio of pleasant and unpleasant things around me would not change. It wasn't up to me. It was clear that the best thing to do was to adopt a sort of muddled cheerfulness.

I often think that when it comes time to die, I want to breathe my last in a kitchen.

Con tan sólo sonreírnos el uno al otro nos sentíamos satisfechos. Creíamos que aquel momento duraría toda la eternidad.

In this world, there is no place for sadness. No place; not one.

He lived knowing that he had already experienced perfection; that, no doubt, was what gave him a certain aura of sadness, and a sense of flexibility.

To take things as they be -- Thet's my philosophy. No use to holler, mope, or cuss -- If they was changed they might be wuss.

Ghar ki murg; dal barabar.

Happiness is when you love who you are and you are able to accept yourself and others.

I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money.

Feel that life likes you just the way you are; otherwise, it would have made you differently.

Tranquility is achieved when you are in harmony with all beings and all situations, knowing that everything is precisely the way it is meant to be.

I would not run for president. I really like what I'm doing now. People say I'm giving them energy and hope.

She chattered on about the Inn. 'I'm a genius,' she said. 'I got three hundred people into two rooms that were meant to hold two hundred and fifty. And they're happy. Deep down, people are really sardines. They love being squeezed together.

I love myself. Anything that has my name I'm tickled to death.

Are we always to be wanting what isn't: the greenest grass accord and principle motherhood and career? Yet our age lies to us like an asp, whispering. "Both.

Sometimes grown-ups cry when they're happy. That's what I'm doing. I'm crying because I'm happy.

At the end of our time on earth, if we have lived fully, we will not be able to say, "I was always happy". Hopefully we will be able to say, "I have experienced a lifetime of real moments, and many of them were happy moments."

You don't seem it." "I am happy." "But you've just given me all the reasons I don't need to have

When we don't have something in our lives, we tell ourselves that we don't need it, that we don't want it—because the alternative is aching for it, which breeds a sense of loss. So, we remove it from the picture we make of our lives. What we don't see, we don't miss.

When we don't have something in our lives, we tell ourselves that we don't need it, that we don't want it—because the alternative is aching for it, which breeds a sense of loss. So, we remove it from the picture we make of our lives. What we don't see, we don't miss. Then, as Paul said, something happens

So, is it harder to dream about what you don´t have than to live in fear of losing what you do?

I'm not saying that there's anything better than mated bliss at its best, but I'm saying that living alone is as good in its own way. But we haven't quite given ourselves permission to recognize that.

The emotional excess of music felt more real than the muted emotion and soft demeanor I expressed in daily life. When I was this passionately engaged I didn't need anything else to "complete" me; not a man, not a career affirmation. I only had to give in to the music to live an immense life that I could experience any time I chose.

IDENTIFY THOSE THINGS THAT DEEPLY ENGROSS YOU, THAT MAKE YOU FEEL COMPLETE, THAT MAKE YOU FEEL AS THOUGH NOTHING IS MISSING