#content

Some things are hard to imagine. Can you conceive of excessive contentment, for example? Or an over pleasant evening? Too much happiness? ↗

— Alan Moore

#happiness #pessimism #imagination

It is not enough to be happy, one must be content. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#inspirational #inspirational

The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure. ↗

— Laurence J. Peter

#failed #failure #great #question #whether

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough ↗

— Oprah Winfrey

#contentment #dissatisfaction #life #perception #positivity

I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel." (Audrey Hepburn: Many-Sided Charmer, LIFE Magazine, December 7, 1953) ↗

— Audrey Hepburn

#content #privacy #refueling #reprive #restoration

Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#goals #happiness #life #satisfaction #life

Inventory: "Four be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe. Four be the things I'd been better without: Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt. Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne. Three be the things I shall have till I die: Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye. ↗

— Dorothy Parker

#contentment #curiosity #doubt #envy #foes

If I knew everything, life would be lonely, as everyone else would want to explore the world, and I’d be content with a cat on my lap sitting in the dark. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#content #dark #explore #knowledge #lonely

My dad’s contentment is all that matters to me. When he’s laughing, I’m laughing. When he’s happy, I’m happy. I would give up my soul for him. To me, nothing else but his happiness matters. ↗

— Rebecah McManus

#daughter #father #fathers-and-daughters #happiness #laughter

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 Berg

#life