Quotes About Contentment

I would have to fill those little white rectangles with a lifetime of things that could generate happiness, contentment, satisfaction, or pleasure. I would have to fill them with every good experience I could summon up for a man whose powerless arms and legs meant he could no longer make them happen by himself.

What if I like watching television? What if I don't want to do much else other than read a book?' My

I love you, babe." And, satisfied, he rolled off, threw an arm back over his head, and was asleep within minutes. When

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Nie ma innego szcz??cia na tym ?wiecie ni? to, które osi?ga cz?owiek, kochaj?c swoj? prac?.

It was nice to feel something other than anxiety, or mute fury, the twin emotions that seemed to make up so much of my daily life.

I hope your day was full of good things.

I've just learned not to get wound up about things I can't change.

Maybe just to know that something this beautiful exists is all we can really ask for.

That he was there was such an unexpected bonus that I think we had both silently agreed just to enjoy being around each other. There was no need to sightsee, to tick off experiences, or to run to bed. It was, as the young people say, all good.

Here, I could hear my thoughts. I could almost hear my heartbeat. I realized, to my surprise, that I quite liked it.

But there is a great consolation in simply doing something you love.

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

Es más de lo que ya podía pedir. Más de lo que jamás había confiado encontrar. No me imagino compartiendo la vida con nadie más que con él.

I would have to fill those little white rectangles with a lifetime of things that could generate happiness, contentment, satisfaction, or pleasure. I would have to fill them with every good experience...I had a hundred and seventeen days in which to convince Will Traynor that he had a reason to live. pg. 137

According to Paul, contentment is precisely what you and I are to study (Philippians 4:11). "Learn to be content," he tells us, understanding that if we're not content where we are today, we'll not be content wherever we plan on going tomorrow.

Don't compare the success of your bus to other buses. Just enjoy your ride.

who all they do is complain? They focus on what they don't want, don't like, and don't have.

Meditation is the only intentional, systematic human activity which at bottom is about not trying to improve yourself or get anywhere else, but simply to realize where you already are.

To let go means to give up coercing, resisting, or struggling, in exchange for something more powerful and wholesome which comes out of allowing things to be as they are without getting caught up in your attraction to or rejection of them, in the intrinsic stickiness of wanting, of liking and disliking.

I am lucky in marriage and in dogs.

they were happy, in the ordinary ways which had evaded them for so long.

And everyone lived happily, thought maybe not completely honestly, ever after. The End.

The more toys children have, the less likely that they would enjoy any of them.