Contentment-quotes Quote by Loren Cribbs

“There are often wonderful things about the past that we miss, and there are exciting possibilities in the future that we long for. Yet…

— Ramon Presson

“As we grow older we are apt to forget that the despair of the young is even more gigantic and immediately overwhelming than their…

— Anonymous

“Some people grow older and more cynical. Some people become just the opposite. Life hurts without hope, and cynicism, once a luxury, becomes unaffordable.”

— William Norwich

“As we age we begin to grasp at youthful bliss like a life raft in a sea of harsh reality.”

— Brad Herzog

“With all our success and expensive vacations, our big houses and bigger mortgages and our brand-new cars - have we become so satiated that…

— Jamie Cat Callan

“People think happiness will simply fall into their laps. You have to aspire to it. And sometimes you have to seize it when it’s…

— Kresley Cole

“Discontentment shows up when we focus on what we can't have rather than what we do have.”

— Emily P. Freeman

“Apparently, now and again adults take the time to sit down and contemplate what a disaster their life is. They complain without understanding and,…

— Muriel Barbery

“ Inevitably, if we are to grow and change as adults, we must gradually learn to confront the challenges, paradoxes, problems and painful reality…

— James P. Krehbiel

“It’s not that we grow old, I thought, but that we grow old in decline and discomfort, and these hardships are made worse by…

— Thomas H. Cook

“I think most old people know that, and many of us try to keep our thinking on the positive side as a matter of…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“I suppose if one lives to be old, one's entire waking life will be spent turning on the spit of recollection over the fires…

— Philip Larkin