Quotes About Contentment

More than working toward the book's climax, I work toward the denouement. As a reader and a writer, that's where I find the real satisfaction.

So, my sweetheart back home writes to me and wants to know what this gal in Bombay's got that she hasn't got. So I just write back to her and says, Nothin', honey. Only she's got it here.

No amount of money can replace the kind of happiness and satisfaction I derive out of writing.

',Alive' stems from emotional growth and contentment. Before writing the song, I was swimming in a pool of hurt, guilt and spiritual discomfort. Instead of drowning, I decided to embrace these feelings and express gratitude for the lessons learned. With this new-found sense of life, I am stronger and happier than ever.

Happiness now sometimes meant turning away from what one remembered of earlier, better happiness.

The boy does well enough, said Vicente. A goose does not ask much of life, after all. No, she admitted. Those who ask much are more likely disappointed. We should all be as simple as the goose.

After all is said and done," said the Dormouse, "there is nothing to be done. Or said.

Being normal isn't that miserable. Try it for a thousand years in a row, and you'll be grateful for a little zaniness.

The family was still hard-pressed for money, and dreamed of savory treats to eat, but they had the warmth of one another, and enough on which to live, and in most parts of the world that is called plenty.

Don't wish," said Rain, "don't start. Wishing only…

Perhaps our time here is limited, said Frex, sighing with contentment and clasping his arms behind his head - the typical male response to happiness, thought Melena: to predict its demise.

I'm not looking for happiness. But I'm not looking for an ending either. pg. 544

I'd give a lot to achieve fun," Elphaba said. "The best I usually hope for is stirring, and when people say that they're usually referring to digestion-

Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.

We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.

There's a great satisfaction in knowing that we've made good use of our days, that we've lived up to our expectations of ourselves.

I knew I wouldn't discover happiness in a faraway place or in unusual circumstances; it was right here, right now— as in the haunting play The Blue Bird, where two children spend a year searching the world for the Blue Bird of Happiness, only to find it waiting for them when they finally return home.

Outer order isn't a matter of having less or having more; it's a matter of wanting what we have.

Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already am. —Journal of Thomas Merton

Rather than striving for a particular level of possessions—minimal or otherwise—it's helpful to think about getting rid of what's superfluous. Even people who prefer to own many possessions enjoy their surroundings more when they've purged everything that's not needed, used, or loved.

It's easy to make the mistake of thinking that if you have something you love or there's something you want, you'll be happier with more.

In many situations, we don't need to make a perfect choice but just a good-enough choice.

Erasmus's The Praise of Folly. According to a footnote, the argument of the growing heap is: If ten coins are not enough to make a man rich, what if you add one coin? What if you add another? Finally, you will have to say that no one can be rich unless one coin can make him so.

Having less often leads us to use our things more often and with more enjoyment, because we're not fighting our way through a welter of unwanted stuff.