#content

Mama told me to make a special point to remember the best times of my life. There are so many hard things to live through, and latching on to the good things will give you strength to endure, she says. So I must remember this day. It is beautiful and this seems like the best time to live and the best place ↗

— Nancy E. Turner

#life #beauty

Ultimate prosperity is one's value within. It takes a man of depth, morality, and charm to be envied yet without a sign of wealth or romance. A passion to prove such inner worth is his permission to achieve whatever he desires. ↗

— Criss Jami

#charm #contentment #depth #desire #envy

Life is perphas after all simply this thing and then the next. We are all of us improvising. We find a careful balance only to discover that gravity or stasis or love or dismay or illness or some other force suddenly tows us in an unexpected direction. We wake up to find that we have changed abruptly in a way that is perculiar and inexplicable. We are constanly adjusting, making it up, feeling our way forward, figuring out how to be and where to go next. We work it out, how to be happy, but sooner or later comes a change-sometimes something small, sometimes everything at once- and we have to start over again, feeling our way back to a provisional state of contentment. ↗

— Anne Giardini

#life #start-over #change

...I should always find, the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind; but that middle station had the fewest disasters, and was not exposed to so many vicissitudes as the higher or lower part of mankind; nay, they were not subjected to so many distempers and uneasinesses either of body or mind, as those were who, by vicious living, luxury, and extravagances on one hand, or by hard labor, want of necessaries, and mean or insufficient diet on the other hand, bring distempers upon themselves by the natural consequences of their way of living; that the middle station of life was calculated for all kind of virtues and all kind of enjoyments; that peace and plenty were the handmaids of a middle fortune; that temperance, moderation, quietness, health, society, all agreeable diversions, and all desirable pleasures, were the blessings attending the middle station of life... ↗

— Daniel Defoe

#philosophy-of-life #diet

Ari smiled. The sun was shining, the weather was great, he was eating ice cream, and all his dreams were about to come true. ↗

— James Patterson

#dreams

The most enjoyable book in the world is the phone book, because think of all the sex that went into creating the content. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#books #content #create #enjoyment #family

Search for contentment in each person you meet. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#contentment #inspirational #kindness #motivational #inspirational

Our greatest limitation isn't the leader of the lives; it is the spirit within us. ↗

— John MacArthur

#leadership #leadership

He was going through one of those moments that you read about in books, when a character reacts in an unexpectedly extreme way to the normal discontents of living. ↗

— Elena Ferrante

#life #life

The most difficult thing to adjust to, apparently, is peace and contentment. ↗

— Henry Miller

#contentment #life #peace #life