Quotes About Contentment

Il n'est pas nécessaire de mépriser les riches, il suffit de ne pas les envier.

Quand je pense à tous les livres qu'il me reste à lire, j'ai la certitude d'être encore heureux .

Im Grunde wollte Smutek ihnen den kürzesten aller Witze erzählen: Treffen sich zwei Menschen. Sagt der eine: Ich bin glücklich.

People take their same old lives wherever they go. No place is perfect enough to strip you of that.

Satisfaction isn't always happiness by a long sight. Then again, it isn't sorrow either. But the rocks and the spruces and the fogs of your own land are things that nourish you. You can always have them. No matter what else you find, or what else you lose.

Out of the strain of the Doing, Into the peace of the Done.

No se esconda cuando algo le produzca placer.

Happy endings are all I can do. I wouldn't know how to write anything else.

Michael nodded tersely, eyeing a table across the room. It was empty. So empty. So joyfully, blessedly empty. He could picture himself a very happy man at that table. "Not feeling very conversational this evening, are we?" Colin asked, breaking into his (admittedly tame) fantasies.

It was strange, to find a woman who could make him happy just with her mere presence. He didn't even have to see her, or hear her voice, or even smell her scent. He just had to know that she was there.

Until you've lived through all that," he said, "don't you ever complain about what we have. Because to me... to me..." He choked on the words, but he barely paused before he continued. "This - us - is heaven. I can't bear to hear you say otherwise.

He'd been waiting for a love fraught with passion and drama; it hadn't even occurred to him that true love might be something that was utterly comfortable and just plain easy.

Change what you can and accept what you can't.

Maybe she was a wallflower. There was no shame in that. Especially not if one enjoyed being a wallflower.

Francesca não precisava amá-lo. Mas tinha de se sentir livre. Livre para ser feliz. Porque se não estivesse feliz... Bem, 'isso' o mataria. Podia viver sem o seu amor, mas não sem a sua felicidade.

Laugh. Laugh out loud, and laugh often. And when circumstances call for silence, turn your laugh into a smile.

Laugh. Laugh out loud, and laugh often. And when circumstances call for silence, turn your laugh into a smile. Don

Don't settle. Know what you want and reach for it. And if you don't know what you want, be patient. The answers will come to you in time, and you may find that your heart's desire has been right under your nose all the while. And

You make me smile.

She didn't like to think she was so shallow that a mere dress could make her happy, but she had to concede that it gave her a new sense of self-confidence.

Today I glory in my sixdom." "Sixdom?" "Sixitude." Annabel started to grin. "Sixulation," Louisa proclaimed.

She didn't want to be commended for knowing how to settle for second-best. That was like winning a prize for the prettiest shoes in a footrace. Irrelevant and not the point.

Não preciso de ser mesmo boa. Só preciso de retirar prazer do que faço. E de saber que tentei.

She had her face tipped up to the sun and was basking in its warmth. And for one extremely disconcerting moment, Anthony felt a sharp stab of…something.