#content

Imagination doesn't always make you long for what you cannot have, but rather thrive in what you do not have. ↗

— Criss Jami

#brain #cognition #content #contentment #creativity

Happy is still Happy, with or without the Ever After. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#being-single #contentment #happily-ever-after #happiness #happy

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 #marriage

To accept what you are is to be content, and contentment is the greatest wealth. To work with patience is to gather power. To surrender to the Eternal flow is to be completely present. ↗

— Vimalia McClure

#inspirational #patience #inspirational

Better to be happy with the cod fish in your plate now, than to linger for the taste of a tuna that is still swimming in the sea. ↗

— Dennis E. Adonis

#contentment #decisions #greed #happiness #love

I only seem negative to the fortunate. That's because I show the less fortunate that they aren't less fortunate after all. ↗

— Criss Jami

#fortunate #fortune #happiness #inspirational #negativity

Live near to God, and so all things will appear to you little In comparison to eternal realities.-- ↗

— Robert Murray McCheyne

#god #happiness #inspirational #peace #perspective

...she lost twenty minutes sitting on the floor with her arms wrapped around her knees, smiling into the pretty glow and imagining herself a contented farmer's wife waiting for her man to come in from the fields. ↗

— Nora Roberts

#daydream #fire #wife #imagination

It was being a runner that mattered, not how fast or how far I could run. The joy was in the act of running and in the journey, not in the destination. We have a better chance of seeing where we are when we stop trying to get somewhere else. We can enjoy every moment of movement, as long as where we are is as good as where we'd like to be. That's not to say that you need to be satisfied forever with where you are today. But you need to honor what you've accomplished, rather than thinking of what's left to be done (p. 159). ↗

— John Bingham

#contentment #inspiration #joy-in-journey #running #inspirational

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents. ↗

— Salvador Dali

#jealousy #malcontents #merely #success is #thermometer