Contently Quotes

#1. They learned to live contently with small things, to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion, to be worthy not respectable, and to be rich not wealthy. They let the sacred and unconscious bloom amidst the common, rendering it all extraordinary.

David Paul Kirkpatrick

#2. Did you hear the one about the woman who is attacked on the street by a gorilla, beaten senseless, raped repeatedly, and left to die? When she finally regains consciousness and tries to speak, her doctor leans over to hear her sigh contently and to feebly ask, 'Where is that marvelous ape?'

John McCain

#3. A merciful heart beats contently stronger than many vengeful ones

Munia Khan

#4. A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contently.

Benjamin Franklin

#5. The house was left; the house was deserted. It was left like a shell on a sandhill to fill with dry salt grains now that life had left it. The long life seemed to have set in; the trifling airs, nibbling, the clammy breaths, fumbling, seemed to have triumphed.
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Virginia Woolf

#6. I was miserable, of course, for I was seventeen, and so I swung into action and wrote a poem, and it was miserable, for that's how I thought poetry worked: you digested experience and shat literature. [from "Mingus at the Showplace"]

William Matthews

#7. We are compassionate with ourselves when we are able to embrace all parts of ourselves and recognize the needs and values expressed by each part.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#8. Within 10 years it will be impossible to travel to the North Pole by dog team. There will be too much open water.

Will Steger

#9. You can change my mind, but you gotta work harder at it.

Doris Roberts

#10. I'm not a pessimist. Maybe I don't have a primitive feeling of happiness, that is true. Sometimes my color is happy but not the expression.

Karel Appel

#11. Sexuality with all its attendant yearnings and pains, jealousies and taboos, is the most disturbing impulse humans have.

John Steinbeck

#12. After a bad opening, there is hope for the middle game. After a bad
middle game, there is hope for the endgame. But once you are
in the endgame, the moment of truth has arrived

Edmar Mednis

#13. I have always wanted my children's dads to be involved in their lives. Not just the day-to-day aspect, but the emotional shifts that they go through, when little things pop up - they need to be included, absolutely, and for the children to feel that they are.

Kate Winslet

#14. Sometimes you don't know until you go ahead and do it. It might work out right. It might not.

Jessica Madden