Quotes About Contentment

He smiled, the kind of smile that denotes private happiness, the kind where you have nothing to prove.

I know we can do this. I know it's not how you would have chosen it, but I know I can make you happy. And all I can say in 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.

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.

Just live well. Just live.

She has drunk a lot. There have been at least three glasses since she got here, and there were many more back at the bar. But she has reached that rare, pleasant state of alcoholic equilibrium. She is not drunk enough to feel sick or woozy. She is just merry enough to be suspended, floating in this pleasurable moment.

Don't think of me too often... Just live well. Just live

My skin grew freckled, my nails bleached, and I began to feel a rare happiness at the simple pleasures of existing here – of walking on a beach, eating unfamiliar foods, swimming in warm, clear water where black fish gazed shyly from under volcanic rocks, or watching the sun sink fiery red into the horizon.

You have to decide to let yourself be happy.

I've had a very good life, Louisa. I loved my job and I worked with some wonderful people. I traveled to Paris, Milan, Berlin, London, far more than most women my age...I had my beautiful apartment and some excellent friends. You mustn't worry about me. All this nonsense about women having it all. We never could and we never shall. Women always have to make difficult choices. But there is a great consolation in simply doing something you love.

They sat in companionable silence, sipping their tea.

That's why you piss me off, Clark. Because I see all this talent, all this...' He shrugged. '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.

Just live well. Just live. Love, Will A

You could choose to be happy or you could not.

I know I shouldn't be but I woke up really happy. 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.

This is what happiness feels like.

Rich is paying every single bill on time without thinking about it. Rich is being able to have a holiday or get through Christmas without having to borrow against January or February. Actually, rich would be just not thinking about money all the bloody time.

I'm not sure happiness is a matter of what you deserve.

Money didn't buy you happiness, she reflected afterward, but it certainly provided you with better places to be miserable.

Most of the time, I was reasonably content with my life. I had been to enough group sessions now to know that it was important to be grateful for simple pleasures. I was healthy. I had my family again. I was working.

Exista o mare consolare in simplul fapt ca poti face un lucru care iti place.

She felt the sun on her skin, heard birdsong over people talking, revving cars, smelled petrol fumes and hot pastry, and the words echoed through her head, unbidden: this is what happiness feels like.

The other was, simply, that I didn't really have an appetite for spending.

I supposed I would probably marry Patrick, knock out a few kids, live a few streets away from where I had always lived. Apart from an exotic taste in clothes, and the fact that I'm a bit short, there's not a lot separating me from anyone you might pass in the street. You probably wouldn't look at me twice. An ordinary girl, leading an ordinary life. It actually suited me fine.

I know we can do this. I know it's not how you would have chosen it, but I know I can make you happy. And 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.