Maggie Stiefvater Quotes

In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?

It pays to be content with your lot.

My opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it.

To be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth. As long as one sorely needs a certain additional amount, that man isn't rich.

There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there's no reason why you shouldn't have a fairly good time.

Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others such contentment, and joy, and understanding that you have managed to find yourself.

Perhaps this was the secret to being at peace: want nothing but what is given to you.

My own ambition, my deepest and truest ambition, is to find within myself someday, somehow, the ability to do likewise, to do NOTHING - and find it enough.

Yes, you who must leave everything that you cannot control, It begins with your family, and soon it comes round to your soul. Well I've been where you're hanging, I think I can see how you're pinned: When you're not feeling holy your loneliness says that you've sinned.

Be satisfied with your business, and learn to love what you were bred to.

With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of all these things.

What I feel best about is that while I enjoy what I have and don't want to lose it, I also don't need it.

May God grant me love for that which has splendor; but in this time of my life let me strive for attainable things.

Happiness consists not in having much, but in wanting no more than you have.

Meditation is acceptance. It is the acceptance of life within us, without us and all around us. Acceptance of life is the beginning of human satisfaction.

Contentment is the door to god. If one is contented, one has already arrived. And the meaning of contentment is absolute acceptance as you are. Contentment means acceptance, discontentment means non-acceptance. A wants to become B - that is discontent. A is perfectly happy in being A, there is no desire to become B - that is contentment.

If thou wouldst be happy, bring thy mind to thy condition, and have an indifferency for more than what is sufficient.

If there's one thing I've learned, it's this: We all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.

Forget purpose. It’s okay to be happy without one. The quest for a single purpose has ruined many lives.

Don't Seek Happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness

To know what one can have and to do with it, being prepared for no more, is the basis of equilibrium.

ENOUGH, pro. All there is in the world if you like it.

Goonies are good enough, good enough for me

The secret of life is not to have everything you want, but to want everything you have.