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quotes by topic Contentment

" 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. "

Want , Firsts , Contentment

" The search for contentment is, therefore, not merely a self-preserving and self-benefiting act, but also a generous gift to the world. You cease being an obstacle, not only to yourself but to anyone else. Only then are you free to serve and enjoy other people. "

Elizabeth Gilbert

Happiness , Contentment

" There had to be something wrong with my life. I should have been born a Yugoslavian shepherd who looked up at the Big Dipper every night. "

Haruki Murakami

Contentment

" We write for the same reason that we walk , talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That's why we paint, that's why we dare to love someone - because we have the impulse to explain who we are. "

Contentment

" It was best to appreciate what you had and not yearn for more. "

Appreciation , Contentment

" 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 "

Contentment

" Sage.‚Äù He laughed. ‚ÄúI‚Äôm into anything, so long as you‚Äôre with me. "

Happiness , Contentment

" Sixty-nine was an interesting age--an age of infinite possibilities--an age when at last the experience of a lifetime was beginning to tell. But to feel old--that was different, a tired, discouraged state of mind when one was inclined to ask oneself depressing questions. What was he after all? A little dried-up elderly man, with neither chick nor child, with no human belongings, only a valuable Art collection which seemed at the moment strangely unsatisfying. No one to care whether he lived or died... "

Agatha Christie

Human , Contentment

" 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. "

Charles Dickens

Ambition , Contentment

" It will be your duty, and it will be your pleasure too to estimate her (as you chose her) by the qualities that she has, and not by the qualities she may not have. "

Charles Dickens

Marriage , Contentment

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