What I see especially among the Navajos and the Zunis and the Hopis is a culture of people who have been smart enough to learn a lesson that we're awfully slow to get... They know that being rich doesn't have any damn thing to do with how much money you've got. It's got to do with are you happy and are you content.
Rachel DickinsonTags: money happiness lesson rich contentment happy smart content
It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.
Flannery O'ConnorTags: rich wealth writing contentment write writer concern poor ficton
Happiness is in contentment, gratitude, and love. It is a lifestyle, not a location.
Ogwo David EmenikeTags: inspirational happiness love contentment fulfillment gratitude
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.
Julian BarnesTags: love contentment marriage familiarity boredom habit long-term-relationships
I think it's a real gift to be able to say that what's in your life is enough. It seems most of us re always wanting more.
Elizabeth BergTags: contentment
Whenever he was in company he wanted to get away, and whenever he was alone he wanted company.
J.K. RowlingTags: contentment anxiety
The tourists always seem to want something. On Thisby, it's less about wanting, and more about being." I wonder after I say it if he'll think I sound like have no drive or ambition.
Maggie StiefvaterTags: contentment wanting
Was it possible to do both, to contribute to the world while merely observing it? To be content in the moment, but plan for the future? Could you follow your heart without losing all common sense?
Holly RobinsonTags: contentment common-sense giving giving-your-best
Timing clicking together, finally, pieces falling into place.
Sarah DessenTags: contentment self-peace
Gracious Providence, to whom I owe all my powers, why didst thou not withhold some of those blessings I possess, and substitute in their place a feeling of self-confidence and contentment?
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheTags: contentment vanity self-confidence
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