Quotes About Contentment

Ya que, al fin y al cabo, vivir es esperar siempre algo más de lo que ya poseemos, algo más de lo que hacemos, y la muerte es lo único en que podemos confiar.

When we come to a place where we trust that God's timing is perfect, we can be content no matter where we are because we know that God will not leave us there forever. Maintaining a passion for the present means embracing the light we have where we are at this time and trusting that it is enough.

I follow You, Lord, because You are my home. Wherever You are is where I belong.

Nothing wrong with being single when you can do as you please without objection or complaint. The presence of the fur ball was icing on the cake.

As long as you have sufficient toilet paper, how far wrong can life go?

When it comes to work, it isn't so much what we do or how much we're paid; it's the satisfaction we take in doing it.

Then I mouthed the sweetest four words in the English language: I told you so.

I love being single. It's almost like being rich.

Sometimes I stand in the bathtub, elbows resting on the sill, and stare at passing cars, just thinking how lucky I am. I love being single. It's almost like being rich. I

I felt a jolt of pure joy. It was one of those occasions when I suddenly realized how happy I was. Life was good. I was female, single, with money in my pocket and enough gas to get home. I had nobody to answer to and no ties to speak of. I was healthy, physically fit, filled with energy.

I read for a while and then slept the way you do with a tummy full of red meat and a shitload of cholesterol coursing through your veins.

Nothing wrong with being single when you can do as you please without objection or complaint.

Positive emotions remind us at such times that suffering and uncertainty are not the whole story in any human life. Positive emotions and beliefs fuel resilience and help us bounce back from adversity. They generate even more positive emotions in an upward spiral. This is surely part of the power of love. Love, at its best, brings a cornucopia of good things: joy and contentment, safety and trust, intense interest and involvement, curiosity and openness.

Sitting, years later, watching the last of the ice finally melting on our lake one morning in early April and hearing my husband and children walking through the woods behind me. They were laughing and talking, and I touched for a moment the deepest joy, the kind of joy that was, and still is, entirely enough to fill up my heart for this lifetime.

She shrugs finally. At any rate, no, I have no wish to change my life. And he realizes, suddenly, what he has been asking her. Realizes that the version of life he has offered Gaby - their life together - is a gift he has given her and has no right to take away. He reaches over and touches her hand. Of course you don't.

I'd chosen the regret I could live with best, that's all.

You are my everlasting home. Don't you ever be afraid. I am enough. We are enough.

I'd chosen the regret I could live with best, that's all. I'd chosen the life I belonged to.

Their laughter would ring out abruptly, a sound Mother welcomed. "Our slaves are happy," she would boast. It never occurred to her their gaiety wasn't contentment, but survival.

we need not avoid our active lives, but simply bring to them a new vision and shift of gravity. for in the center we are rooted in god's love. in such a place there is no need for striving and impatience and dashing about seeking approval.

I feel again the hunger to let go of my striving and find the ability to become content and still, intentionally superfluous, as writer Helen M. Luke puts it. I want a refuge from my old conquering self.

It never occurred to her their gaiety wasn't contentment, but survival.

Ich beneidete die Schildkroeten um ihre Panzer in denen sie jederzeit verschwinden konnten.

Good night," I said, and rolled onto my side. "There is nothing perfect," August said from the doorway. "There is only life.