Quotes About Contentment

the glow in Libby's cheeks. When there

walking away, Nelly also got to her feet and quickly took up her place beside Emma. Content and comfortable in each other's company, Emma and Nelly meandered through the garden, a lovely place of stately old trees and spreading shrubs already heavy with buds. At the farthest end, away from the house, there was a small

A matter of habit, didn't Mr. Sanger think? After three days without one, the desire to read a newspaper vanished. And really, one was happier without.

What had he ever wanted that he could not buy? And if that wasn't riches he didn't know what was.

Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.

A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.

Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.

To complain now would be kind of sad. I like the way things are going.

He needed fresh air and sunshine. A walk in the woods and afterward a good book to read by the fire. Yeah, that was the life.

He woke with Max's arms wrapped around his torso and Max's genitals soft against his ass. And for the first time in days he wasn't aware of wanting anything but breakfast. Breakfast and Max. Not necessarily in that order.

In our silence lies our safety.

How many people were content with their lives? How many people were happy—happy in the moment and not in retrospect?

I visited those friends who'd just had a baby, and she was washing dishes and he was cleaning the house, and I burst with happiness. And in their minds, they were in this terrible domestic rut.

Why not just go with it? Just walk the dog and send the tweets and eat the scones and play with the hamsters and ride the bicycles and watch the sunsets and stream the movies and never worry about any of it? I didn't know it could be that easy. I didn't know that until just now. That sounds good to me. I think I might be able to do that. Who couldn't do that? It would take somebody mentally ill not to do that, and I'm not mentally ill.

John Calvin wrote, "The evil in our desire typically does not lie in what we want, but in that we want it too much.

When we define our happiness by some point in the future, it will never arrive. We'll keep waiting until tomorrow. If we allow impatience to govern us, we will miss the gift of the moment. We'll arrive at that point in time we expected to provide fulfillment and find it lacking.

Do not worry yourself so much. Take joy in things that are joyful, there is no harm in that.

Just for today, I will not be angry. Just for today, I will not worry. Just for today, I will count my many blessings. Just for today, I will do my work honestly, and just for today, I will be kind to every living creature.

Ele começou a reconhecer que, mais difícil do que viver, é saber encerrar harmoniosamente a vida, sem azedumes nem resmungos, em paz com o mundo que ficaria para trás

Happiness is making your dreams come true.

To achieve happiness, one must be willing to let go of what no longer serves them.

Happiness is a choice. It's up to you to create your own joy and fulfillment.

Maybe, she thought, grown-up life was not so much finding your perfect place in the world, but aching for all the faraway places and people you loved—and learning to look at right where you are now, as Rema would say, through a long eyepiece of grateful.