Quotes About Contentment

I keep my expectations low, so nobody disappoints me." "Yeah, well, I have high expectations." I look toward Miranda. "I guess my friends do, too." "Expectations make people miserable, so whatever yours are, lower them. You'll definitely be happier.

Shelley, you think she'll take me back?" Alex asks her, his hair dangerously close to her fingers. She doesn't pull his hair . . . just pats his head gently. I feel the tears running down my cheeks at full speed. "Yeah!" Shelley yells with a goofy, gummy grin. She looks happier and more content than she's been in a long time. Both of my favorite people are with me right here; what more could I ask for?

I loved the ox, and every day I congratulated myself on being of this world.

the three crowns that can usually be hoped for only at the end of a long life. Love, the trust of others, and that kind of glory that accompanies every woman who is happy

She would go to and fro amid all this in a sort of permanent joy and richness, as if Indian poppies, congo canes, hummingbirds, and orange trees were enough to fill a woman's heart with complete satisfaction.

Everyone wanted to know what life was like at Belle-Feuille, behind all those ramparts of green - how they ate, talked, drank, went about their daily lives. And above all, what was important to them in life, and were they at least glad to be alive?

Simonetta Agnello Hornby

As long as there's coffee and chocolate, nothing else matters.

Such contentment is never the result of the momentary decision of the will. It cannot be produced merely by having a well-ordered and thought-through time- and life-management plan calculated to guard us against unexpected twists of divine providence. No, true contentment means embracing the Lord's will in every aspect of His providence simply because it is His providence. It involves what we are in our very being, not just what we do and can accomplish.

I've never done a single thing I've wanted to in my whole life! I don't know 's I've accomplished anything except just get along.

Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.

It's all a hold up anyway-- money, body, brains. Do you think anybody's ever satisfied with what he's got a right to?

"I come from a world where we celebrate small things in a big way and this keeps us humble." -sm-

Do not be too excited about the future and fail to appreciate what you have at right now.

Don't worry, look out the window and enjoy the view.

Stop searching, just be where you need to be."

I seek no longer to be a 'famous' person, and instead I wish to live a 'normal' life.

Better are the days of loneliness, than the days of regrets and sorrows.

Choose the inner beauty that soothes your soul instead of physical beauty that attracts many.

Seek no happiness from other and sorrow will be away from you.

To be content with success, you have to be hungry for books.

We invite happiness into our lives by humbling ourselves.

The failure of the mind in old age is often less the results of natural decay, than of disuse. Ambition has ceased to operate; contentment bring indolence, and indolence decay of mental power, ennui, and sometimes death. Men have been known to die, literally speaking, of disease induced by intellectual vacancy.

My mind to me a kingdom is;Such present joys therein I findThat it excels all other blissThat earth affords or grows by kind:Though much I want which most would have,Yet still my mind forbids to crave.