Quotes About Contentment

With goodness one can feel secure; why wasn't I satisfied with goodness, why did I always ask her the wrong questions?

trying to extricate from the long day the grain of pleasure

I had no memory at all of Sarah and I was completely free from anxiety, jealousy, insecurity, hate: my mind was a blank sheet on which somebody had just been on the point of writing a message of happiness. I felt sure that when my memory came back, the writing would continue and that I should be happy.

Baines wasn't really happy; he was only watching happiness from close to instead of from far away

They want enough rice,' I said. 'They don't want to be shot at. They want one day to be much the same as another. They don't want our white skins around telling them what they want.

Are you a happy man?' Querry asked. 'I suppose I am. It's not a question that I've ever asked myself. Does a happy man ever ask it? I go on from day to day.

If I had been told I would have laughed, as I laugh now on my better days.

He said, 'You don't have to make conversation with me.' 'My husband says that I am too silent.' 'Silence is not a bad thing.' 'It is when you are unhappy.

I was sunk deep in my middle age. All the same I laid my head against her breast. 'I have been happy,' I said, 'but I have seen so bored for so long.

It's always the same wherever one goes—it's not the most powerful rulers who have the happiest populations.

When you are miserable you envy other people's happiness.

If one possess a thing securely one need never use it.

At one with the One—it didn't mean a thing beside a glass of Guinness on a sunny day.

I thought with bitterness and envy: if one possesses a thing securely, one need never use it.

Sometimes in this life you have to understand that we don't need to know everything.

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives. Where we focus our attention.

It's very tempting when you really want to be with someone to settle for much, much less - even a vague pathetic facsimile of less - than you would have ever imagined. Remember always what you set out to get and please don't settle for less.

the end, only you can make you happy.

I have resolved a simple thing: I will do those things which make me happy today, and which I can also live with ten years from now.

have resolved a simple thing: I will do those things which make me happy today, and which I can also live with ten years from now.

It's hard to be genuinely enthusiastic if you can never have what's in front of you—when it comes so easily to others.

Sense withdrawal means to accept the fact that external stimuli can never truly fulfill us. Once that is accepted, we are free to realize that what we were desperately looking for on the outside was present inside all along.

The real trick in life is to want nothing, and to succeed in getting it. - Karla

There's too much love in the world. Sometimes I think that's what heaven is---- a place where everybody's happy because nobody loves anybody else, ever.