contentment

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
332e789	It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.	happiness life inspirational attitude contentment	Dale Carnegie
ba0c6d8	A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor -- such is my idea of happiness.	nature work music happiness life neighborliness usefulness conduct-of-life country rest contentment	Leo Tolstoy
8e03dc2	" "Four be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe. Four be the things I'd been better without: Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt. Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne. Three be the things I shall have till I die: Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye."	laughter doubt sorrow friends hope life love wisdom idleness foes inventory contentment sufficienty superfluity unattainable envy curiosity knowledge values	Dorothy Parker
09b8acf	For the first time, she did want more. She did not know what she wanted, knew that it was dangerous and that she should rest content with what she had, but she knew an emptiness deep inside her, which began to ache.	dreams desires contentment longing	Iain Pears
eaf6eaf	If you're waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you'll never make it.	action bravery doubt feelings follow-your-dreams good-enough just-do-something passion perseverance pursue-your-dreams risk take-action courage musician persistence faith fear confidence dreams motivational success inspirational actor just-do-it athlete concern business encouraging career security ambition determination contentment skill worry emotions gift talent insecurity	Criss Jami
98c5403	Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it, you must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it. If you don't, you will leak away your innate contentment. It's easy enough to pray when you're in distress but continuing to pray even when your crisis has passed is like a sealing process, helping your soul hold tight to its good attainments.	happiness blessings contentment pray soul	Elizabeth Gilbert
ca38fab	You don't have to be part of a couple to be happy, you know.	happiness love self-acceptance single contentment couple self-esteem	Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
f70e0da	Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life - it has given me . It has provided time and experience and failures and triumphs and time-tested friends who have helped me step into the shape that was waiting for me. I fit into me now. I have an organic life, finally, not necessarily the one people imagined for me, or tried to get me to have. I have the life I longed for. I have become the woman I hardly dared imagine I would be.	life maturing getting-older contentment experience aging	Anne Lamott
13eb852	Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem	satisfaction nirvana contentment	Kahlil Gibran
fcbefff	Whenever he was in company he wanted to get away, and whenever he was alone he wanted company.	contentment	J.K. Rowling
e78dd42	Some of the freckles I once loved are now closer to liver spots. But it's still the eyes we look at, isn't it? That's where we found the other person, and find them still.	marriage love familiarity contentment long-term-relationships habit	Julian Barnes
678b6c0	I mean a man whose hopes and aims may sometimes lie (as most men's sometimes do, I dare say) above the ordinary level, but to whom the ordinary level will be high enough after all if it should prove to be a way of usefulness and good service leading to no other. All generous spirits are ambitious, I suppose, but the ambition that calmly trusts itself to such a road, instead of spasmodically trying to fly over it, is of the kind I care for.	work usefulness generosity diligence contentment service	Charles Dickens
940bef5	One way to tell if you're really comfortable with a person is if you can be quiet together sometimes and not feel awkward. If you don't feel obligated to say something brilliant or funny or surprising or cool. You can just be together. You can just .	friends friendship love contentment	Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
c6ea26a	There is no health in those who are displeased by an element in Your creation, just as there was none in me when I was displeased by many things You had made. Because my soul didn't dare to say that my God displeased me, it refused to attribute to You whatever was displeasing.	sovereignty-of-god contentment	St. Augustine of Hippo
77bb3da	"And you require no answers", Foamfollower was laughing in his gladness, "You are sufficient to every question"."	enquiry contentment being	Stephen R. Donaldson
3405bfe	No one's happy here, you know that. But I am content, and maybe that's enough for me.	happiness lost-in-time melissa-de-la-cruz contentment hell	Melissa de la Cruz
1e13799	She had the experience to suffer with discretion.	contentment dignity	John le Carré
3c1b74f	"There was a man with tongue of wood Who essayed to sing, And in truth it was lamentable. But there was one who heard The clip-clapper of this tongue of wood And knew what the man	inspirational belonging contentment	Stephen Crane
72e8707	...the morning with the whole day waiting, full of promise, the night of quiet, of no expectations, of rest. And the certainty of home, the one I live in, and the one that lives in me.	foundation contentment	Karen Hesse
c8a099c	If consumers found fulfillment at any meaningful level, she extemporized, corpocracy would be finished.	contentment	David Mitchell
d95c24f	...not to look back or feel sad about things, that home is wherever I am.	loneliness sadness homesickness contentment home	Donna Tartt

332e789

It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.

happiness life inspirational attitude contentment

Dale Carnegie

ba0c6d8

A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor -- such is my idea of happiness.

nature work music happiness life neighborliness usefulness conduct-of-life country rest contentment

Leo Tolstoy

8e03dc2

" "Four be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe. Four be the things I'd been better without: Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt. Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne. Three be the things I shall have till I die: Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye."

laughter doubt sorrow friends hope life love wisdom idleness foes inventory contentment sufficienty superfluity unattainable envy curiosity knowledge values

Dorothy Parker

09b8acf

For the first time, she did want more. She did not know what she wanted, knew that it was dangerous and that she should rest content with what she had, but she knew an emptiness deep inside her, which began to ache.

dreams desires contentment longing

Iain Pears

eaf6eaf

If you're waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you'll never make it.

action bravery doubt feelings follow-your-dreams good-enough just-do-something passion perseverance pursue-your-dreams risk take-action courage musician persistence faith fear confidence dreams motivational success inspirational actor just-do-it athlete concern business encouraging career security ambition determination contentment skill worry emotions gift talent insecurity

Criss Jami

98c5403

Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it, you must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it. If you don't, you will leak away your innate contentment. It's easy enough to pray when you're in distress but continuing to pray even when your crisis has passed is like a sealing process, helping your soul hold tight to its good attainments.

happiness blessings contentment pray soul

Elizabeth Gilbert

ca38fab

You don't have to be part of a couple to be happy, you know.

happiness love self-acceptance single contentment couple self-esteem

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

f70e0da

Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life - it has given me . It has provided time and experience and failures and triumphs and time-tested friends who have helped me step into the shape that was waiting for me. I fit into me now. I have an organic life, finally, not necessarily the one people imagined for me, or tried to get me to have. I have the life I longed for. I have become the woman I hardly dared imagine I would be.

life maturing getting-older contentment experience aging

Anne Lamott

13eb852

Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem

satisfaction nirvana contentment

Kahlil Gibran

fcbefff

Whenever he was in company he wanted to get away, and whenever he was alone he wanted company.

contentment

J.K. Rowling

e78dd42

Some of the freckles I once loved are now closer to liver spots. But it's still the eyes we look at, isn't it? That's where we found the other person, and find them still.

marriage love familiarity contentment long-term-relationships habit

Julian Barnes

678b6c0

I mean a man whose hopes and aims may sometimes lie (as most men's sometimes do, I dare say) above the ordinary level, but to whom the ordinary level will be high enough after all if it should prove to be a way of usefulness and good service leading to no other. All generous spirits are ambitious, I suppose, but the ambition that calmly trusts itself to such a road, instead of spasmodically trying to fly over it, is of the kind I care for.

work usefulness generosity diligence contentment service

Charles Dickens

940bef5

One way to tell if you're really comfortable with a person is if you can be quiet together sometimes and not feel awkward. If you don't feel obligated to say something brilliant or funny or surprising or cool. You can just be together. You can just .

friends friendship love contentment

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

c6ea26a

There is no health in those who are displeased by an element in Your creation, just as there was none in me when I was displeased by many things You had made. Because my soul didn't dare to say that my God displeased me, it refused to attribute to You whatever was displeasing.

sovereignty-of-god contentment

St. Augustine of Hippo

77bb3da

"And you require no answers", Foamfollower was laughing in his gladness, "You are sufficient to every question"."

enquiry contentment being

Stephen R. Donaldson

3405bfe

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

happiness lost-in-time melissa-de-la-cruz contentment hell

Melissa de la Cruz

1e13799

She had the experience to suffer with discretion.

contentment dignity

John le Carré

3c1b74f

"There was a man with tongue of wood Who essayed to sing, And in truth it was lamentable. But there was one who heard The clip-clapper of this tongue of wood And knew what the man

inspirational belonging contentment

Stephen Crane

72e8707

...the morning with the whole day waiting, full of promise, the night of quiet, of no expectations, of rest. And the certainty of home, the one I live in, and the one that lives in me.

foundation contentment

Karen Hesse

c8a099c

If consumers found fulfillment at any meaningful level, she extemporized, corpocracy would be finished.

contentment

David Mitchell

d95c24f

...not to look back or feel sad about things, that home is wherever I am.

loneliness sadness homesickness contentment home

Donna Tartt