Quotes About Contentment

There was so much in the world to be had and not had.

I'd chosen the regret I could live with best, that's all. I'd chosen the life I belonged to. (Sarah Grimke's character)

but I've made my peace with our separation.

Later, I lay awake listening to him sleep, the soft clouds of his breath filling the room. I couldn't close my eyes for happiness. It sprouted in me like a bright green shoot.

Egy embert boldoggá tenni – tudod, ez az, ami számít. Az emberekkel az a legnagyobb baj, hogy… – … hogy nem tudják, mi számít, és mi nem! – Én úgy mondanám, a baj az, hogy tudják, mi számít, és mégsem azt választják.

will have to learn how to let life be life with its unbearable finality . . . just be what it is.

he quoted a scripture from Ephesians, reciting from memory. "Slaves, be obedient to them that are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of heart, as unto Christ." Then he made what many, including my mother, would call the most eloquent extemporization on slavery they'd ever heard. "Slaves, I admonish you to be content with your lot, for it is the will of God! Your obedience is mandated by scripture. It is commanded by God through Moses.

Slaves, I admonish you to be content with your lot, for it is the will of God! Your obedience is mandated by scripture. It is commanded by God through Moses. It is approved by Christ through his apostles, and upheld by the church. Take heed, then, and may God in his mercy grant that you will be humbled this day and return to your masters as faithful servants.

That night it felt strange to be in the honey house by myself. I missed Rosaleen's snoring the way you'd miss the sound of ocean waves after you've gotten used to sleeping with them. I didn't realise how it had comforted me. Quietness has a strange, spungy hum that can nearly break your eardrums.

La ira puede cambiar con el tiempo a alegría; el enojo puede ser reemplazado por el contento.

Carlos was probably somewhere warm, eating three meals a day, and sleeping in a real bed. That was the life

Well, no one says you can be happy about everything, I said. I know I should be glad for you, Megan, but frankly I think you're crazy. And if Reverend Marshall is making you this way, I think he's evil. This life, this everyday existence, is the one gift we're given. To throw it away, to want to be dead, to me that's the sin.

We're all alive. We're all healthy. These are the good times.

We're all alive. We're all health. These are the good times.

The tension between what is, and what we dream of, is important. Not to discount what we have, but to hold onto that middle ground, because it's in there that the magic happens.

We must be content and think it no fault; /

Expect nothing and fear nothing, here or anywhere. That's your first lesson.

In a way," Great –Uncle Merry said. His eyes seemed dazed, unable to focus anywhere, but there was a twitching at the corners of his mouth. Somehow, without smiling, he looked happier than they had ever seen him look before. Jane thought, watching: it is a sad face usually, and that's why there is such a difference.

Expect nothing and fear nothing, here or anywhere. That is your first lesson.

The "peace which comes from selflessness," Karen Armstrong explains, "is a condition that those of us who are still enmeshed in the cravings of egotism . . . cannot imagine.

My heart kind of hurt when I looked at her. Not because I was in love, but because I could tell from looking at her that she didn't hate herself. Not only didn't she seem to hate herself, she barely seemed to think about herself. How fucking glorious must that be?

It must be amazing to end each day consumed with something other than disappointment at yourself and the world.

is a gift and we need to accept it with gratitude and a full heart. I

felt like the Grinch after stealing all the presents. The Whos down in Whoville really didn't need the trappings of Christmas to celebrate the season. They were happy anyway, and so was she.