Quotes About Contentment

I always seem to be so cozy with my own company that I rarely think of going out.

having a dream and being on the journey to fulfilling it sometimes brings more happiness than actually achieving it. We have a habit, do we not, of thinking happiness is a future state if only this and that condition can be met. And so much of life passes us by without our realizing how happy we can be in this present moment, or how nearly happy.

Yet it could be no one else but him. There was a certain feeling about being with Christopher that she had forgotten, a feeling of safeness, of rightness.

what she had

This was all she would ever have of him, and she was going to enjoy these few days for all they were worth. She would enjoy them in the strict privacy of her heart, without either Piers or anyone else being at all aware of her reason for doing so.

Adaptamos nuestra vida a las circunstancias y cogemos la felicidad donde la encontramos, aun cuando sólo sea en momentos pasajeros. O hacemos eso o nos perdemos la oportunidad de aceptar la gracia en nuestra vida. Este es un momento feliz. Lo recordaré.

All that had happened would not have happened. She would not be raw with pain. She would be safely content.

He did not have to do anything here. He could just be. Perhaps that was the best and most enduring of lessons one could learn from life.

I will not knowingly empty my life of all meaning. Not just for pleasure. And not for you. It would be a poor exchange indeed.

It would be a challenge worth undertaking . . . to rid your face of that look of longing . . . and to replace it with a look of—something else.

They had not felt the absence of larger celebrations. They had wanted only each other. Their world had been complete.

Elizabeth slept for the rest of the night, somewhat comforted by her decision to do something.

I could not possibly want anything more.

You cannot fail to enjoy yourself there and forget all your woes.

It is a dreary world out there. It makes one thankful after all to be indoors with a fire burning in the hearth.

Peace is hard won, and the effort to keep it is ongoing. We must never become complacent in life. We must never feel we have arrived and there is nothing left to do but enjoy.

Sometimes our dreams lead us in the wrong direction and it would be foolish to continue pursuing them out of sheer stubbornness or the fear of disappointing others. There are other dreams waiting to be dreamed—the right dreams, the ones that will lead to contentment.

Some people look forward to going to heaven after they die," he said. "For years after I purchased it, Rose Cottage was the earthly heaven to which I aspired.

Doctor I've wrestled with reality for 40 years and I'm happy to say that I've finally won out over it.

Home, he said softly. If there is a more beautiful word in any language, I do not know it.

You know how people say, Don't borrow trouble? Well, said Morgan, I guess it's the opposite of that. Doc is borrowing happiness.

Her life had been blessedly unburdened by happiness. When some period of fleeting contentment ended, Sofia Mendes did not register it as outrageous, but merely noted a return to life's normal condition. So, as the first weeks after the massacre passed, she simply counted herself lucky to be among others who did not weep and wail for the dead.

The trick is not to care. I have a perfect indifference to winning.

I am where I want to be, they each thought. I am grateful to be here. In their own ways, they all gave themselves up to God's will and trusted that whatever happened now was meant to be. At least for the moment, they all fell in love with God.