Willa Cather Quotes

Peace is its own reward.

Peace is not a thought, not a concept; it is a nonverbal experience.

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

I'm happy and satisfied with my accomplishments. I sleep well at night.

You have to take the responsibility totally, that it is you who decides either to be in misery or to be in blessing. If you want misery, have more desires. If you want a blissfulness, then learn the art - even for few moments - of being desireless, and you will be surprised. Even for a few moments, if you are desireless, all anguish, all anxiety disappears. And you are so contented, so fulfilled, that you cannot ask for more. Your blessing is so much that you can only say that you bless the whole existence. Still it will be there. It is so much; it is overflowing.

For me, success is inner peace. That's a good day for me.

You have everything you need for complete peace and total happiness right now.

The empty, the one, the unmoved, the full, satiation, wanting nothing--that would be my evil: in short, dreamless sleep.

Silence is the essential condition of happiness.

Just that, is one of those uncommon moments, those times when you don't wish for something else, for even one thing to be different; when you have no other needs or worries, where your insides are calm, and everything you were ever restless about, anything that had ever given you angst, is quieted to stillness. No steel ball in your chest, no breathless fear. No blue numbness of nearly passing out, no nagging doubts of the backstage mind. All of that, forgotten. It is just rightness, so rare.

Contentment is natural wealth.

Joy is a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Would all, who cherish such wild wishes, but look around them, they would oftenest find their sphere of duty, of prosperity, and happiness, within those precincts, and in that station where Providence itself has cast their lot. Happy they who read the riddle without a weary world-search, or a lifetime spent in vain!

Joy is one part inner peace, one part giddy delight and 100% attainable.

Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

The great stillness in these landscapes that once made me restless seeps into me day by day, and with it the unreasonable feeling that I have found what I was searching for without ever having discovered what it was.

You cannot find it anywhere, because it is located inside you... happiness is your natural state.

We all want to experience more happiness, fulfillment, and peace.

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Find joy and peace in this very moment.

Nothing makes me feel better - calmer, clearer and happier - than being in one place, absorbed in a book, a conversation, a piece of music. It's actually something deeper than mere happiness: it's joy, which the monk David Steindl-Rast describes as 'that kind of happiness that doesn't depend on what happens.

I believe I am happy. I don't think I have achieved happiness in all areas of my life yet. As far as success is concerned, my family is being taken care of. But I think the last level of happiness would be becoming a father.

Everything was fine, and she had the rare, new sensation of being exactly where she wanted to be.

A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath.

Money will never make you happy if you are an unhappy person.