#content

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

— Henry Miller

#contentment #life #peace #life

Sage.” He laughed. “I’m into anything, so long as you’re with me. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#contentment #happiness #love #sydney-sage #love

In the widely open cup of the armchair was I-330. I, on the floor, embracing her limbs, my head on her lap. We were silent. Everything was silent. Only the pulse was audible. Like a crystal I was dissolving in her, in I-330. I felt most distinctly how the polished facets which limited me in space were slowly thawing, melting away. I was dissolving in her lap, in her, and I became at once smaller and larger, and larger, unembraceable. For she was not she but the whole universe. For a second I and that armchair near the bed, transfixed with joy, we were one. ↗

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

#love #love

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 Barnes

#contentment #familiarity #habit #long-term-relationships #love

If all I had was all that money could buy, I'd be bankrupt!" EL ↗

— Evinda Lepins

#contentment #money #money

Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts; the sight of the deep-blue sky and the clustering stars above seems to impart a quiet to the mind. ↗

— Jonathan Edwards

#nature #nature

Be like the flower, content with its nature. ↗

— Seth D.

#contentment #desire #happiness #identity #living

Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#self-confidence #self-contentment #spring

A little girl's fantasies are one thing, and literature is another; just as numbers require rules to give them human meaning, words, too, demand a form to turn them into literature. ↗

— Benjamin Moser

#form #biography

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#certainties #content #doubts #end #man