Quotes About Contentment

Our stomachs live in towns, said Mma Potokwani, patting the front of her dress. 'That is where the work is. Our stomachs know that. But our hearts are usually somewhere else.

I don't understand why you are so unhappy about it, Jesse said. He had stretched out across the tiles, contented as I'd ever seen him. I like it much better this way. What way? I groused. I couldn't get quite as comfortable. I kept finding prickly pine needles beneath my butt. Just the two of us, he said with a shrug. Like it's always been.

What's wrong? Nothing, I said. Because nothing was wrong. For the first time in my entire life, it seemed, everything was suddenly, fantastically right.

I went to bed all happy, thinking maybe a boy liked me. It's stupid that that's all it takes sometimes to make you happy.

Now?" Cooper looks back at me with a joyous grin. "Now we live happily ever after.

After all this time, I know exactly where I belong. Here. With Edmond. And that's how I live now.

I didn't really care much about anything, so I guess I felt fine.

Thanks to His Majesty, the magus said, and my father seemed startled at the correction but not displeased. He looked thoroughly satisfied and very much like Ina when she has all her embroidery threads arranged to her satisfaction. He looked so pleased that I checked over my shoulder to see if there might be someone else behind me who had drawn his attention.

I am so sick of people who all seem to be smarter than I am and know more than I do. I wanna go back to the farm. These people make my family look easy to get along with.

They are all accepted," I said. It wasn't important anymore.

My goal in life is to be content. By that I don't mean fine or basically satisfied. I don't mean settling. I mean, for last of better terms, feeling like I'm in the right life.

If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.

If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, thank you, that would suffice.

I am what I wanted and I want what I am.

All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

For the person who has learned to let go and let be, nothing can ever get in the way again.

If your career choices aren't bringing you satisfaction, you should seriously look at doing something else.

Happiness is just a dog sunning itself on a rock. We're not put on this earth to be happy. We're here to experience great things.

Does he make you happy? Sure, I said. He told me I didn't know what real happiness was. You have to shrink yourself to fit into this little life with him.

No one's happy here, you know that. But I am content, and maybe that's enough for me.

I can't think of anything I'm not grateful for.

There was no such thing as a happy ending, only a happy present.

feels so damn good?

The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy— that's all that matters.