"My personal opinion is that the neutral position on the mood spectrum—what I called emotional sea level—is nothappiness but rather contentment and the calm acceptance that is the goal of many kinds of..."
- Andrew Weil
"Wanting less is probably a better blessing than having more."
- Mary Ellen Edmunds
"I love everything that makes up a milieu, the rolling of the carriages and the noise of the workmen in Paris, the cries of a thousand birds in the country, the movement of the ships on the waters. I l..."
- George Sand
"Timing clicking together, finally, pieces falling into place."
- Sarah Dessen
"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
"If God gave you contentment then you would never pursue your life purpose. It is your restlessness that pushes you to take action, change your life and seek more of what you could possibly be."
- Shannon L. Alder
"Give a bull grass, sweet water and a willing heifer and he is happy. But a man is never content. If no gadflies of worry exist he will invent them."
- Alison Fell
"I was so nearly happy. There remained only a tiny something, something unexplained and inexplicable that buzzed in my ear when the lights were out, like a malarial mosquito."
- Jennie Rooney
"I have never loved Fortune, even when she seemed most to love me. I never considered her treasures mine, neither her money, nor her office nor her influence. Her theft of these things, therefore. has ..."
- Walter Wangerin Jr.
"If you are foolish enough to be contented, don't show it, but grumble with the rest; and if you can do with a little, ask for a great deal. Because if you don't you won't get any."
- Jerome K. Jerome