#contentment

Thoughts will lead you in circles. Silence will bring you back to your centre. ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#centre #contentment #nature #peace #peace-of-mind

We need much less than we think we need. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#need

If men only felt about death as they do about sleep, all terrors would cease. . . Men sleep contentedly, assured that they will wake the following morning. They should feel the same about their lives. ↗

— Richard Matheson

#death #sleep #death

She had had her momentary flowering, a year, perhaps, of wildrose beauty, and then she had suddenly swollen like a fertilized fruit and grown hard and red and coarse, and then her life had been laundering, scrubbing, laundering, first for children, then for grandchildren, over thirty years. At the end of it she was still singing. ↗

— George Orwell

#joy #motherhood #singing #beauty

There had to be something wrong with my life. I should have been born a Yugoslavian shepherd who looked up at the Big Dipper every night. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#different-lives #discontentment #happiness #life #night

In contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor. ↗

— William Ames

#found #height #joy #love #neighbor

From labour health, from health contentment spring; contentment opes the source of every joy. ↗

— James Beattie

#every #health #joy #labour #source