“When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everyone will respect you.”— Lao Tzu, amazon.com
“I’m really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.”— L. M. Montgomery, amazon.com
“It has to be a mixed of dissatisfaction with the way that it is, and what could be better, and we have to work for that; and also recognizing that we've done a great deal of remarkable things, as a species and as individuals.”— Hank Green, youtube.com
“Maybe it's beautiful that we move on from our successes and immediately fret over the next giant, magnificent problem that we have to overcome.”— Hank Green, youtube.com
“Maybe that's good! that we're not designed to say, 'Well, I guess we've done pretty well. Might as well stop progressing.'”— Hank Green, youtube.com
“I regret nothing. There have been things I missed, but I ask no questions, because I have loved it, such as it has been, even the moments of emptiness, even the unanswered-and that I loved it, that is the unanswered in my life.”— Ayn Rand, amazon.com
“One of the craziest things about The Great Gatsby is there's always some debaucherous party going on, and no one is ever having any fun. Like, everybody in that room just wants more money and more class, and they wanna, like, find a way to get a better life, except for Tom Buchanan, who has what the…”— John Green, youtube.com
“I felt I had failed because I wasn't looking out at the greatest horizon, or swimming with the strongest current, or battling the biggest waves... Now, I find myself content, utterly content, to look at the horizon rather than chase after it.”— John Green, youtube.com
“...and you drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a cold bed and think, That was fine. And your life is a long line of fine.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.com
“Give yourself permission to feel okay. This is why we love when other people love us - because it lets us flip the mental switch that gives us permission to be happy, proud, excited or content.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“And I felt like my heart had been so thoroughly and irreparably broken that there could be no real joy again, that at best there might eventually be a little contentment. Everyone wanted me to get help and rejoin life, pick up the pieces and move on, and I tried to, I wanted to, but I just had to li…”— Anne Lamott, amazon.com
“You’ll notice that I haven’t talked about love. Or about happiness. I’ve talked about becoming - or remaining – the person who can be happy, a lot of the time, without thinking that being happy is what it’s all about. It’s not. It’s about becoming the largest, the most inclusive, most responsive per…”— Susan Sontag, graduationwisdom.com