quiet satisfaction Quotes

She was learning, quite late, what many people around her appeared to have known since childhood that life can be perfectly satisfying without major achievements.

There may be no trumpet sound or loud applause when we make a right decision, just a calm sense of resolution and peace.

The sober comfort, all the peace which springs from the large aggregate of little things.

Occasionally some individuals let the seeming ordinariness of life dampen their spirits. Though actually coping and growning, others lack the quiet, inner-soul satisfaction that can steady them, and are experiencing instead, a lingering sense that there is something more important they should be doing . . .as if what is quietly achieved in righteous individual living or in parenthood are not sufficiently spectacular.

People come and go around you, but you're never the one getting the big stuff. I like that.

But there was also a little of that thing they say about New Englanders: Being from here doesn't prevent me from doing anything, it just prevents me from enjoying it.

I'm happy, but there's nothing to jump around about.

The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.

Restrain yourself... and gloat in silence. I'll have no jubilation here. It is an impious thing to exult over the slain.

This was my modest dream come true: unambitious flight. The kind that never even got high enough for a view.

I silently smiled at my incessant good fortune.

There is some shadow of delight and delicacy which smiles upon and flatters us even in the very lap of melancholy.

One does not jump, and spring, and shout hurrah! at hearing one has got a fortune, one begins to consider responsibilities, and to ponder business; on a base of steady satisfaction rise certain grave cares, and we contain ourselves, and brood over our bliss with a solemn brow.

Id be happiest standing at the back, strumming my little banjo where no one could see me.