Quotes About Contentment

It's hard to attain that "nothing-missing" feeling on a steady diet of television.

Let go of the idea that someone else can make your life wonderful. Your happiness is in your own hands; that's the safest place for it.

The loved one should be a delightful accompaniment to our already intact lives, not the main event.

You deserve to be happy. You also deserve to be you

Not all of us need to spend every second of our lives trying to get somewhere other than where we are. Not all of us have to grab the brass ring on the carousel. Some of us just like to go around and enjoy the ride.

Today was a day for remembering only the good. And there had been a lot of good.

No, I stay for myself. Everything I need, everything I want, is here. I know it's not enough for most people, but it is for me. Every time I leave, even for an afternoon or an overnight trip to Seattle, I can't wait to get back. This is home. And I guess I'm a person who needs a home, a place to plant seeds and watch them grow.

I have so much, and yet I'm still not happy.

Everything I need, everything I want, is here. I know it's not enough for most people, but it is for me. Every time I leave, even for an afternoon or an overnight trip to Seattle, I can't wait to get back. This is home. And I guess I'm a person who needs a home, a place to plant seeds and watch them grow.

You deserve to be happy and you deserve to be you. One True Love. Love

Was kannst du dir denn sonst vom Leben mitnehmen als das Lachen!

She had come to terms with her lack of beauty, but never with her lack of genius in the single thing she had ever wanted.

Christian contentment is that sweet, inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, which freely submits to and delights in God's wise and fatherly disposal in every condition.

At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted.

If there were to be a universal sound depicting peace, I would surely vote for the purr.

Is it enough for people to simply enjoy their work without finding it meaningful or being passionate about it? I think it is. In fact, I would prefer to completely rid the concept of meaningful work as the gold standard, and replace it with a new one: doing satisfying work that meet one's needs.

I wish I could've saved that moment there in that weed-filled yard surrounded by those good-hearted Odoms, with Wishbone sitting there on the cooler in front of us. Just pack it into one of Bertha's canning jars to keep in my room. Then when I was feeling bad about myself or loaded down with all my troubles, I could open it up and breathe in the goodness of it and I'd feel better.

When you're in between dreams, you get to lean back and relax and stop trying so hard. Trying to be somebody, I mean. It's not as exciting as being a television star, but it's not that bad, either. You just have to learn to be satisfied with the way you are for a while. Not Forever. Just until you're finished resting.

The small things of life were often so much bigger than the great things . . . the trivial pleasure like cooking, one's home, little poems especially sad ones, solitary walks, funny things seen and overheard.

If it is true that men only want one thing, Jane asked herself, is it perhaps just to be left to themselves with their soap animals or some other harmless little trifle?

But it's a good feeling and one does so like to have that.

Rhoda was not in the least envious of her sister's fuller life, for now that they were both in their fifties there seemed to be very little difference between them.

Dear Mildred,' he smiled, 'you are not the kind of person to expect things as your right even though they may be.

And yet why should she not be allowed her occasional joys, such very mild ones, which were mostly remembrance of things past?