Quotes About Contentment

I might be collecting wheely bins in 12 months time but at least they'll be wheely bins outside back gates that I know, in a part of the country that I love. There's no place like home!

And so, with laughter and love, we lived happily ever after.

Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.

I've heard a saying that says 'the best things in life are free'. Don't believe it for a minute. Believe this: The best things in life...aren't things .

on buying a private island] Money doesn't buy you happiness, but it buys you a big enough yacht to sail right up to it.

I feel underslept but overjoyed. Nothing feels so good as this.

You know, sometimes I even envy myself.

I wouldn't change a thing - except my bank balance.

The love of retirement has in all ages adhered closely to those minds which have been most enlarged by knowledge, or elevated by genius. Those who enjoyed everything generally supposed to confer happiness have been forced to seek it is the shades of privacy.

Prefiero esta contigo, incluso con ese tú que a ti te parece tan poca cosa, antes que con cualquier otra persona en el mundo.

All I can say is that you make me... you make me into someone I couldn't even imagine. You make me happy, even when you're awful. I would rather be with you - even the you that you seem to think is diminished - than with anyone else in the world.

There is a whole lot more to life than winning.

I see all this talent, all this... this energy and brightness and... potential. Yes. Potential. And I cannot for the life of me see how you can be content to live this tiny life. This life that will take place almost entirely within a five mile radius and contain nobody who will ever surprise you or push you or show you things that will leave your head spinning and unable to sleep at night.

There is a great consolation in simply doing something you love.

What if I like watching television? What if I don't want to do much else other than read a book?... What if I'm tired when I get home? What if I don't fill my days with frenetic activity?" "But one day you might wish you had

I was twenty-six years old and I wasn't really sure about what I was. You probably wouldn't look at me twice. An ordinary girl, leading an ordinary life. It actually suited me fine.

I know I shouldn't be," he murmured, "but I woke up really happy." His face scanned hers. "I mean, like, really, stupidly happy. Like even though my whole life is a disaster, I just...I feel okay. I look at you, and I feel okay.

Jess's grandmother had often said that the key to a happy life was a short memory.

there's a whole lot more to life than winning.

Life is complicated. Which is why finding a little joy where you can is important.

All I can say is that you make me...you make me into someone I couldn't even imagine. You make me happy even when you're awful. I would rather be with you, even the you you seem to think is diminished, than with anyone else in the world.

I realized then that there was actual relief in his expression. That he was pleased to see me in a way he wasn't actually going to be able to say. And I told myself that it was going to have to be enough. I wod do the thing he had asked for. That would have to be enough.

I hope the coffee is good and strong and the croissants fresh and that the weather is still sunny.

Y, por más que lo intento, no entiendo cómo puedes estar satisfecha con una vida tan minúscula. Esta vida que tiene lugar en un radio de poco más de cinco kilómetros y que no incluye a nadie capaz de sorprenderte, exigirte o mostrarte cosas que te dejen boquiabierta y no te dejen dormir de noche.