Quotes About Contentment

Adesso spegniamo la luce e, fino a domattina, niente più dispiaceri. Domani, se ne avremo voglia, ce ne procureremo di nuovi. Va bene?

Noi cerchiamo solo l'uomo. Non abbiamo bisogno di altri mondi, abbiamo bisogno di specchi. Non sappiamo che cosa farcene di altri mondi. Uno ci basta, quello in cui sguazziamo.

What hasn't been achieved by now will never be; and one has to reconcile oneself to this fact, quietly, fearlessly, and, if possible, without despair.

I have a wife, three children, three dogs, seven cats. I'm not a Franz Kafka, sitting alone and suffering.

That is why we must remember that though happiness is rooted in our circumstances, joy is rooted in eternity.

A grateful heart is a heart that is free. An ungrateful heart is a heart that is bound. Gratitude inevitably leads to freedom.

Maybe the less you have, the more you are required to boast.

Are you, are you happy? I am today, she said. Maybe that's what really mattered? Living in the now, and all that crap about the past being over? The future hasn't happened, and today is forever? These aren't the kinds of statements that belonged beside question marks.

Hygge is experiencing quiet joy in any given moment. It is the complete absence of anything annoying or emotionally overwhelming. It is taking pleasure from the things around you.

Make gratitude your brain's default place. It is nearly impossible to feel anything but comfort when you're in a place of gratitude.

calming ability to find good anywhere and a deep sense of peace.

Your sense of ease and peace will be enormous once you stop telling yourself and everyone else what is wrong in your life.

saying thank you. Always. It keeps your heart and your mind in a place of gratitude, which is the best place to be if you want to enjoy a cozy life.

A lack of being remains unaffected by a plenitude of having.

There is nothing one can have that one cannot fear to lose. Instead of living life in order to have more abundantly, live life in order to be more abundantly.

That's the trouble with happy endings," he told me after the funeral. "You just live on and on, until you've sucked all the juice out, and it turns out not to be so happy after all.

You suffer when you crave something different from the here and now. So, stop craving.

And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have. Good and bad.

It's much easier not to know things sometimes.

And I thought that all those little kids are going to grow up someday. And all of those little kids are going to do the things that we do. And they will all kiss someone someday. But for now, sledding is enough. I think it would be great if sledding were always enough, but it isn't.

If it meant that I would never get to think of you that way, as long as you were happy, it was okay.

I put my head under my pillow and let the quiet put things where they are supposed to be.

And I wonder if anyone is really happy. I hope they are. I really hope they are.

It's much easier not to know things sometimes. And to have french fries with your mom be enough.