In time, Etheridge married again, a relationship that strengthened as the years passed, his contentment in it similar to the contentment he had discovered in marriage before.
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And I like the aftermath — that feeling of contentment.
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In any of life's moments, contentment seems a lesser state: How many of us would wish that a friend or a beloved have a life of contentment, or a life free of discontentment?
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People who have intrinsic goals seek inward happiness and contentment.
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Occasionally, I'll see her turn over and sigh with contentment.
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Keeping the emotional connection active is necessary to achieve contentment.
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This episode asks what Jimmy and Kim need for contentment.
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I have found contentment by withdrawing into a leisurely selfishness.
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But you didn't really think that contentment would last, did you?
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Those who master this skill are headed toward success and contentment.
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But now the challenge was to find that contentment within me.
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Researchers divide happiness into two general categories: the level of positive emotions, such as pride, joy, contentment, and curiosity, which we experience on a day-to-day basis, versus an overarching sense of contentment and fulfillment.
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The bull (oxen) symbolizes that relentless pushing forward toward contentment and harmony.
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This was the meaning of contentment, all was right with the world.
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And contentment, he says, is a pretty good ingredient for making music.
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Generally, voters' contentment with their wallets bodes well for an incumbent president.
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Past contentment offers a mocking contrast to a present heavy with loss.
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She has many more expressions to behold. Befuddlement. Disgust. Pleasure. Annoyance. Contentment.
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No wonder all this contentment in your life is driving you mad.
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The hours I spent exercising had given me confidence, but not contentment.
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Crossword puzzles gave us a quiet space for bonding, a shared contentment.
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I still crave simplicity and the contentment that apparently comes with decluttering.
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"She's brought balance and contentment into my life," writes Bennett of his wife.
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The act of creating our own light and warmth produces peace and contentment.
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There's a joy or a contentment that's almost palpable to both of us.
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Companies would be much better off forgetting wishy-washy goals like encouraging contentment.
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Yet "Swimming" remains an expression of wonder and contentment, no matter how fleeting.
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The report also reveals a rift between high and low wage earners' contentment.
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This new experience brought with it a compound emotion, interlocking contentment and regret.
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Her precisely calibrated cocktail for sleep and dreams and daylight contentment actually worked.
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Not euphoria, but that baseline, pastel contentment I had always assumed was mythological.
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The beguiling aria "Come per me sereno" conveys Amina's contentment in fine-spun phrases.
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An expression vaguely resembling contentment flits across their face and you think, triumphantly: see!
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It's a Danish word without a precise analog, but loosely translated as cozy contentment.
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For Funk, there's nothing like the pride and contentment of having her own home.
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Once I was in this state, it was beautiful—a feeling of deep contentment.
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You're on your way to your own personal Nirvana, a place of eternal contentment.
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But mostly, there's a smug contentment to this story that perversely isn't very satisfying.
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What does contentment mean when life is full of the unexpected and the unwanted?
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All this makes Ella's contentment—with her beauty and with her work—quite radical.
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United Methodists who spoke to CNN reacted with a mix of devastation and contentment.
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In fact, the heart of the letter is concerned with finding contentment in being single.
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Despite its drawbacks, consecrated life, as Duell says, "gives me much joy, happiness and contentment."
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It's quiet, but I wouldn't take that as a sign of contentment by any means.
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Her story is a happy one: At 71, she flounces with leonine beauty and contentment.
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It was clear I lacked, and had to find, the contentment those friends had attained.
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My contentment dissipated after 133 hours lapsed without a visit or a word of explanation.
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"Contentment had been there for the grasping, if only I had recognized it," he writes.
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And the couple's dreamy notion of familial contentment — just add love and stir — soon disintegrates.
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The fever of Euroscepticism eventually broke and Britain entered its current age of Euro-contentment.
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The play follows three generations of the Holmes family through struggles for connection and contentment.
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Their answers helped shape scenes that evoke states ranging from manic excitement to gentle contentment.
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You can almost hear the sighs of contentment from a doting grandparent and happy child.
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Older people report higher levels of contentment or well-being than teenagers and young adults.
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In "The Path Made Clear," Ms. O illuminates the path toward self-discovery and personal contentment.
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The years may broaden experience and tint perspective, but is wisdom or contentment certain to follow?
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Feelings of sadness, fear and anger happened less often, with contentment as the least observed emotion.
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It smells like nothing and feels like contentment, and it's under $20 and I love it.
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But instead of bringing love and contentment, their marriage left Islam trapped in a living nightmare.
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Some folks find contentment living that lifestyle, and that's what Smith did well into his 50s.
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Our momentary contentment is achieved one meme at a time, and replaced by another, and another.
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Bobby is rich, successful, famous, and even loved, but he still can't find satisfaction or contentment.
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It did teach me the meaning of contentment, which has nothing to do with holding onto.
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The more I accepted my imperfect mind, the more I settled into a place of contentment.
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Under this view, people have a baseline level of contentment and rapidly adapt to changing circumstances.
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It gives its guests everything that is needed for human contentment: connection, laughter, and physical activity.
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It's unhealthy and unrealistic to want to be happy all the time (go for contentment, instead).
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Ten days of happiness, followed by a month, or two months, or a year of contentment.
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The obstacles to contentment in Stephen McCauley's "My Ex-Life" are less melodramatic and more internal.
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" The book's subtitle is "From Resentment to Contentment — the Power of Grudges to Transform Your Life.
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Nora, for example, has become a successful "women's novelist" and has discovered contentment in living alone.
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People are lost in digital labyrinths that are distracting without being satisfying, stimulating without bringing contentment.
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The challenge to their contentment comes not from Norway's right wing, but from their own family.
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" In her 2013 chat with the Times' T magazine, Lee discussed contentment with her long life. "Regrets?
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He looked with contentment at the sea and the people scanning a blue shelf of used books.
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Your sex life is not fair to either of you and I'm not buying his supposed contentment.
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Later on at the second strip club of the night with my brothers, I found inner contentment.
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The Parisians seemed utterly unconcerned with tempting fate, riling their opponents or projecting an air of contentment.
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Niu Chun-Chiang's works gaze upon the individual in a poetic moment of suspension and self-contentment.
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"I think he's conjuring ideals of domestic contentment — the comfort and stability a carpet denotes," she said.
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But this setup asked us to consider how devotion to the absent ideal prevented any present contentment.
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A life characterized by the pursuit of self-actualization trades satiation and contentment for hunger and yearning.
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Both look cuddly and round, and often have the same expression of contentment on their cherubic faces.
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Does the road to moral enlightenment and matrimonial contentment absolutely lead into the beds of selected others?
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It provides a euphoria — a feeling of contentment, simplification and release — which users swear has no equal.
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Mr. Owens sang "I've Got Plenty O' Nuttin'" with a touch of glee, but also genuine contentment.
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Once these changes occur, the drug of dependence becomes an absolutely essential component to the individual's contentment.
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I have traveled extensively and I have never felt pure contentment and peace as I have here.
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I have traveled extensively and I have never felt pure contentment and peace as I have here.
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They have always been able to eke out a measure of contentment in the meanest of circumstances.
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Remember when you could check out your 401(k) online and feel that little surge of contentment?
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So I describe true wealth as "funded contentment," aligning your money life to your deeper sources of happiness.
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Instead, you can maintain the contentment of your people by focusing inward, building more wonders and cultural additions.
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And when you do so, a sense of wonder and quiet contentment begins to reappear in your life.
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Contentment among customers is at an all-time high, and has risen for four years in a row.
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Practice anticipating that point of contentment before you reach it, so you'll still have time to wind down.
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Baby boomers are finding themselves empty-nesters without grandkids and instead finding contentment and delight with a dog.
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Hoping that contentment will guide me as I make my way along the path yet to be traveled.
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Happiness Is Other People The solitary journey toward contentment is a self-help truism that isn't really true.
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In the sitting room off the sister's room, the TV was going and going steadily, like contentment, too.
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So the thumbs-up—a very pure, human gesture of happiness and contentment—is unfamiliar territory for many.
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What could have been a sketch of Cheeveresque ennui is instead a brief and lovely survey of contentment.
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But the danger of contentment, particularly in the modern job market, is that it can slide into complacency.
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Sometimes the best way to attain real contentment is to make yourself, now and then, a little uncomfortable.
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It's not that he's boring — it's peace and contentment in a world where other people's heads are spinning.
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Those who were educated and lived in urban areas reported higher levels of contentment than their rural counterparts.
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Halep preached contentment, particularly after winning a long-awaited first Grand Slam title at last year's French Open.
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Interlaced fingers either mean contentment or he's about to do the "Here's the church, here's the steeple" thing.
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There is no greater passion than the kind that creates the wonderful refreshment and contentment described as unique!
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The most unexpected reason for Scandinavians' apparent contentment, however, is that they have lower expectations for their own happiness.
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There were definitely a few naps-in-progress after they moved in, which is always a sign of contentment.
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To be human and to be alive means to not just feel joy and contentment, but to feel everything.
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Today I'm full of the deepest contentment I've ever known (and have the financial means to freeze my eggs).
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Owens has not shied away from expressing his contentment in having worked a stable job while pursuing his dreams.
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The Moon connects with the Sun in Aries at 8:11 PM, creating a feeling a harmony and contentment.
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In other words, it's a way of thinking that fosters happiness and contentment by achieving balance in your life.
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Here, Colette makes a bold statement about the level of contentment that could be achieved through marriage: very little.
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Rubinstein's gaze is turned away like those of the other nudes, but there's a new warmth and contentment here.
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Ramsey teaches that having money is about emotion and contentment, and that building wealth is neither moral or amoral.
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Mostly, there are her pleas for Ben to move in, attend their friends' wedding and pursue bourgeois contentment together.
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While money itself cannot manufacture happiness, contentment or success, it can facilitate a lifestyle that makes satisfaction more likely.
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But there are also problems with these income-oriented approaches (beyond their implication that money equals contentment and success).
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Happiness Is Other People (2017) The solitary journey toward contentment is a self-help truism that isn't really true.
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In the end, after all, contentment is a decision; a choice most of us choose to make, or don't.
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The title story, in which a successful businesswoman finds new forms of contentment while baselessly incarcerated, left me unconvinced.
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Workaday contentment starts to give way to a low-grade sense of inadequacy when pitched against capital-H Happiness.
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We gamely tucked into a pair of chicken burgers in an attempt to eat ourselves into a state of contentment.
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"Contentment," the 1928 calendar, shows two young women, also in flowing dresses, sitting on craggy rocks within a mountain range.
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In 2016, a measure of contentment, akin to Bhutan's "gross national happiness" score, was boosted by USC economist Richard Easterlin.
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Candelas' illustrations convey a contentment and calm, challenging the idea that people who live alone are simply antisocial or depressed.
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If so, the current president might reduce American happiness without necessarily doing much damage to contentment about the political system.
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What excites me is the journey of realization, it's about having a great sense of calm, clarity, contentment, and compassion.
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Who hasn't felt the despair of Monday, the quiet contentment of Friday and the anxious, existential anticipation of Sunday night?
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I have experienced joy and darkness, I have learned suffering and willfulness, but I have never known discontentment or contentment.
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Halfway through their lives — considerably more than halfway, in several cases — the men knew nothing of their own vast contentment.
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The couple fall into a domesticity that several years on seems to be splitting the difference between contentment and complacency.
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To be clear, there's nothing wrong with contentment, and I'm not an advocate of change for the sake of change.
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She follows their progress attentively, on her face a look of rapt contentment — and just the shadow of a smile.
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Like Forster, who was determined to give the lovers in "Maurice" a happy ending, Lopez doles out contentment and redemption.
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So I did it, and can go to my grave, on that score at least, with a degree of contentment.
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If not complete contentment, at least there Joana would feel near to other wild hearts, finally allowed to roam free.
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But for Juan Carlos, and especially for his daughter, one night of fun is nowhere near enough to create contentment.
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A new book about medieval views on medicine helps explain the Oby nuns' contentment with the cheapness of their lives.
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MG: Because I have an active and obsessive eye' I'm interested in finding as much contentment as I possibly can.
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By the end of the novel, Elinor (sense) and Marianne (sensibility) find contentment with a vicar and a retired colonel respectively.
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Filmmaker-musician Austin Johnson's breaking project offers three lost-in-the-world anthems, desperate gasps for contentment in a cold universe.
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Now that I look back, the whole goal for me wasn't just contentment; it wasn't just an achievement or an accomplishment.
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Both announced early in their shows, with roaring contentment, how happy they were to be back on the Great White Way.
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That self-contentment applies to civilians who say "thanks for your service" as uniformed servicemen pass by them in an airport.
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Learning to ignore a leaf blower's roar hardly equips me to find contentment during my passage into ever-deeper old age.
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Their bodies were found Tuesday down the road from their house, which they had named Casa Contenta, the house of contentment.
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Southold seems a picture of contentment, a young family striving to make its mark in the new world of Texas wine.
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The nation could hope for no one better to sit at its bedside, soothingly and wittily lulling it into purring contentment.
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When you're approaching 60, a history of consequential emotions — thrills, hope, love, disappointment, grief, loneliness, contentment — are part of the deal.
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Another dreamy landscape, it includes two large classical columns and, like "Contentment," two graceful young women — though they are not on rocks.
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The duchess's watch — called Nkosazana, or princess — had pink, green and yellow triangles and stripes, signaling unconditional love, contentment, joy and happiness.
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For all the striving that goes on among some of its citizens, the town itself emanates a contentment that is soothingly contagious.
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Bright orange fur, loving eyes squeezed in contentment and a sweet smile playing at his whiskers, Bailey the cat might look familiar.
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It's important for your own self-respect and contentment at work to let others know if and when they've overstepped the limits.
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In fact, for much of the time I was writing this article, she was perched on my chest, purring in quiet contentment.
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He visits Neasden, an area in the north-west of the city that used to be a picture of white suburban contentment.
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They owned a drugstore, Park View Pharmacy, which Ozick repeatedly evokes in her writing as a place of Edenic security and contentment.
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Perhaps contentment has nothing to do with what kind of life one has: harsh or easy, painful or joyful, profound or superficial.
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Perhaps the single philosophical consensus of our time is that the key to contentment lies in living fully mentally in the present.
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In reality, despite many grand claims, the scientific evidence in favor of the Moment's being the key to contentment is surprisingly weak.
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Money can't outright buy happiness, but how you choose to use it plays a central role in your overall comfort and contentment.
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Roddy Doyle's new novel, his 11th, opens with a surprise: a protagonist who appears to be flirting with, of all things, contentment.
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Granted, the novel can seem dated in presenting the artistic life as a starkly binary choice between deranged genius and bourgeois contentment.
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In between, we should treat each other as brother and sister because we share this commonality — a desire for peace and contentment.
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Mostly, that involves brewing artisanal teas, singing cute little songs about stasis and contentment, and persuading plants to grow into useful shapes.
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Hence, too, the soundtrack—mostly jagged snatches of string music by Beethoven, Shostakovich, Schnittke, and others, scraping away any patches of contentment.
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It is the contentment of a soul that has renounced resentment and anger, that grows with every act of love and care.
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The questions were designed to measure the magnitude of seven emotions experienced each day: amusement, awe, compassion, contentment, enthusiasm, love and pride.
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The sense of contentment people experience when they gather around one is akin to the comfort they get when they taste it.
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And like us, they have distinct personalities, minds capable of problem solving, and emotions such as contentment and sadness, anger and despair.
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But they love and support each other, and their contentment — even when things go wrong — works its way into Paterson's poetry as gratefulness.
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Paterson shows himself by reacting to his world rather than shaping it, and that reaction is either quiet contentment, or equally muted discomfort.
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" Plus, she says, "If a ceiling tile pattern is going to be the key to my daily contentment, I've got a screw loose!
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The middle classes lived in solid contentment, with enough space to bring up a family and enough servants to lighten the domestic drudgery.
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We got out onto the sand, felt the end-of-summer sun on our faces and let the fun dry out into contentment.
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In that moment, your face seems to suggest, you are crawling towards an infinitely expanding nirvana, a place of unceasing peace and contentment.
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It radiates happiness, a place of contentment and a peaceful life; hummingbirds can be spotted flitting about, drinking the nectar of purple flowers.
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Abandoned by his wife, Moose has found something like contentment worrying over the needs of the hotel's guests and his increasingly aloof daughter.
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But you should know that the letter being quoted from is, by and large, radiant with its author's contentment with his life then.
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We celebrated our anniversary quietly, with a feeling of contentment for our love for each other and our commitment to a future together.
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China did not target any ethnic minority, Mr. Hu said; its ethnic minorities lived in peace and contentment enjoying freedom of religious belief.
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For Democrats desperate to send Trump a stern message, the results were a tug-of-war between optimism and pessimism, contentment and disappointment.
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Among the happy Skipton residents is Sebastian Fattorini, though his reasons for contentment include the fact that he lives in a medieval fortress.
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" Peterson supposes that, "Maybe carrying around a stuffed animal is not a sign of immaturity but something else related to contentment and comfort.
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To look from face to face was to regard a study in contentment, or even, thanks to the pervasive cigar smoke, self-satisfaction.
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The obsessiveness may have something to do with how elusive Ms. Fleming found contentment to be during the first half of her life.
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But a lot of us still need the sense of fantastical racial contentment that movies like "The Upside" and "Green Book" are slinging.
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The serene grin Sendak put on the boy's face as he sits in that private boat is, to me, what contentment looks like.
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Any idea of peace or contentment with our surroundings doesn't speak about resistance and it doesn't speak about true existence in our world.
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Heavy metal and pop fans were at the bottom of the list, with 57.9 and 57.2 percent reporting contentment with their sex lives.
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"You'll be able to get some resolution if you rank your partner's contentment within the situation as highly as your own," Dr. Greer says.
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As a celebration of contentment and first love's glow (her "golden hour"), this album is less perverse and more spare, sweeping, dazed, almost hypnotic.
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Their mutual look of admiration and contentment — artists fulfilled in both love and craft — has stuck with me ever since as an aspirational ideal.
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In a climate in which speculation is seen as accumulation, the apparent contentment of both Klopp and Fenway was confused with acquiescence to stasis.
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I have found happiness and contentment on the third attempt, and for me pessimism is not the key but rather openness and forgiveness are.
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Highly sought after for morning consumption, medical and recreational users both attest to it's power to impart feelings of happiness, contentment, energy and creativity.
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Contentment and disappointment sit so close together on the spectrum of shared experience that it can be hard to tell one from the other.
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In the case of hallucinogens, signaling of the serotonin-1a receptor drives contentment, whereas signaling of the serotonin-2a receptor drives the mystical experience.
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His docile French bulldog, Denise, was the picture of contentment perched on a sofa between the dining room and bar, where tables were higher.
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Both variations can be customized in classic California fashion — the za'atar man'oushe with avocado and a runny egg is a straight road to contentment.
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Derren Brown's (note, definitely not a Hufflepuff) book Happy as an anti–self help book structured around stoicism as it pertains to personal contentment.
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Buddhists believe that contentment is a choice, a conscious act of feeling secure with what you have, and who you are, right in the moment.
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Extending the idea to all society, as Mr Cowen does, is tricky because of the difficulty in telling the difference between complacency, contentment and submission.
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Spiritually, you seek to transcend the veil between life and death, while Taurus seeks to savor life and achieve contentment in the here and now.
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And it's not just the women who are lonely; it exists in the spaces themselves, but in their emptiness the artist illustrates a quiet contentment.
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New residents—a single mother with two kids—show up, and their contentment enrages C; plates are tugged from shelves and flung across the room.
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But China stood firm: A senior Chinese Communist Party official said the country's ethnic minorities lived in peace and contentment enjoying freedom of religious belief.
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As a boy, Ball expected that he would grow up to look after his brother, a possibility that brought him anxiety but also quiet contentment.
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Her descent is marked by the usual signs of addiction: an eroding sense of limits, a stream of banal lies, a metabolic incapacity for contentment.
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Luther, who lived out his life in familial contentment, undertook considerable legal wrangling to will his entire estate to Katharina, rather than to their sons.
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Her own home has "much privilege," she says plainly, and she, her husband and her children have the contentment of a life being well lived.
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Data-hungry corporations insist that we're benefiting from the surveillance state — and that our very acquiescence to the collection is a signal of our contentment.
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The boy learned how to direct his senses away from ease and contentment, to turn his needle instead to where others had turned their backs.
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To be clear, people aren't suffering because money necessarily brings happiness, but it can bring stability, which in turn can lead to higher levels of contentment.
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The hunger takes over your body and mind, causing a stream of lucid thoughts, simultaneously propelling you closer to and further away from nourishment and contentment.
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Perhaps true contentment — to hold oneself together, to hold everything in — is simply an agreement to be in life, to be in it all the time.
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For the less whiskey-inclined, the Wobbly Piper (mezcal, cardamom syrup) and the Royal Mile (vodka, a grapefruity rhubarb pureé) offered their own path to contentment.
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But I left the lunch feeling I had at least taken a small first step in changing behavior that stood in the way of that contentment.
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Not all horses may be snorting in contentment, however, but rather in discomfort or simply acting on a physical need, akin to humans blowing their noses.
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And yet, while Faith's growing contentment provides a calm base for the chaos playing out around her, I found myself wishing for a little more tension.
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Line: Seahawks by 7 ½ The Seahawks won the N.F.C. West with space to spare, but they seemed to be miles from contentment in their last game.
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The Naples-Immokalee-Marco Island metro area was tops in contentment for the second year in a row, according to the Gallup-Healthways 2016 well-being rankings.
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There's a fine line between boredom and contentment, and about 30 street names in, it was like I was momentarily freed from the national state of affairs.
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But a recent survey conducted by Gallup shows that they're more aligned with other generations when it comes to contentment in the workplace than you may think.
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When people listen to music they like, Levitin and his team discovered dopamine is released into the brain's Limbic system, giving people a warm feeling of contentment.
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After a short while Handong's marriage ends in a pitiless divorce, and he manages to find Lan Yu again, but their hard-earned contentment is short-lived.
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If you've ever had sex, odds are that you've felt pretty good afterwards: Sex frequently creates a lingering feeling of contentment, often referred to as "afterglow" effect.
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The milestones that were supposed to bring you a sense of contentment never did — and now you&aposre worried that whatever you do will never be enough.
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She was grading papers; he was working outside, and it was the kind of quiet and predictable day that gave Phillip the feeling of contentment he prized.
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Both shows offer glimpses into lives of wealth and privilege, where money enables the principals to indulge their darkest fantasies but doesn't necessarily buy happiness or contentment.
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The last time I saw David Wallace, in the spring of 2008, he successfully affected artistic contentment, which I now know was the antipode of his true feelings.
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They rated women on a 10-point scale, completely objectified and optimized their libidinous desires and found out that these are not the things that lead to contentment.
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The first time I climbed up this massive pine tree near my house, I gazed at the endless sky and I was filled with both contentment and wonder.
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That feeling of losing yourself in study or a creative pursuit is referred to as "flow," and this state, according to some psychologists, is where true contentment lies.
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Okely's timbre maintains a steady flow, never escalating, exuding an authoritative sense of contentment—here's who is confident in his storytelling so there's no need to yell it.
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Shawn Achor, who has taught at Harvard University, now makes a living teaching big companies around the world how to turn contentment into a source of competitive advantage.
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But I chatted to Tessa to get some of her insight on sexual fulfillment, contentment, and the quiet joy of getting crotchless pants delivered to your parents' house.
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Then bask in the contentment of knowing that, unless they care to face stiff penalties, the people closest to you will be forced to care about you forever.
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Everything about the guest experience, from the smooth jazz playing in the lobby to the earth-tone décor, is designed to create a veneer of contentment and belonging.
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For example, a sampling near the center of "ecstasy" is 33 percent ecstasy, 33 percent relief, 8 percent contentment, 8 percent disappointment, 8 percent disgust, and 8% Distress.
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In the search for contentment, some travel the world or seek knowledge in books; others dance in a highly coordinated troupe surrounded by balloons to a slapper beat.
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In his memoirs, Williams, "too long accustomed to transitory attachments," recalls his initial reluctance to commit and his subsequent realization that, with Merlo, contentment could finally be his.
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There is such a thing as "good enough," and you may need to learn how to take pride and find contentment in the things you have already accomplished.
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"When Danes get together, the principles of inclusion manifests," Louisa Thomsen Brits writes in THE BOOK OF HYGGE: The Danish Art of Contentment, Comfort, and Connection (Plume, $22).
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One can be induced to purchase by cheapening price or giving away a product, but falling in love with a feeling of joy is the result of contentment.
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A time arrived when she knew that's what she was, a god, and with that knowledge came a contentment and a pleasure that she had never known in life.
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I've been covering Android since its earliest Cupcake days, and in the near-decade that's passed, there's never been a moment of contentment about the speed of OS updates.
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To live in one is to grapple, every day, with ambivalence and disappointment, with constant reminders of how the pursuit of perfect happiness (or even reasonable contentment) can fail.
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Within the gauze of contentment, that can be hard to admit, but deep down, you each hope the other will find the endless expanse of a new, uncharted future.
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Those details add up to both a story and a complex character for Esmaili, the actor, to shade with worry, frustration, a little fear and these flickers of contentment.
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Before — before the pink savagery made war on their ears and his sister's body — the brother and sister had sat in what passed as contentment in their small family.
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Thanks to the rise of transformative travel, a vacation is now sold not as a luxury but as a form of therapy, or, at least, a shortcut to contentment.
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This lapse would only last one or two seconds, but each time the reality hit, I switched from my usual cozy contentment to cold, sickening shock all over again.
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Miss Tyler shows the mingling of misery and contentment in the daily lives of her families, reminds us how alike — and yet distinct — happy and unhappy families can be.
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A new group of hotels that have cropped up in some of the world's coldest places provides travelers the chance to experience hygge, the Danish concept of cozy contentment.
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If people could see my own nonstandard, haphazard career path toward being a reasonably compensated startup founder, perhaps it would help them find contentment in where they are now.
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According to Rousseau, modern civilization's tendency to make people seek the approval of those they hate deformed something valuable in "natural" man: simple contentment and unself-conscious self-love.
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I think hacking is both silly stuff like how to tie your shoes but also the bigger stuff about how to find contentment in life, be it material or spiritual.
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Nobody knows how stable their support is because China is so secretive, and because the broad contentment of a country enjoying economic growth is easy to mistake for informed consent.
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Peeling back the layers of space psychology and technological autonomy that covered his appearance on Top Gear with Jeremy Clarkson, I saw something that is unusual for Jay Kay—contentment.
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You can also try keeping a gratitude journal, where you can quickly jot down a list of little joys and things that give you a sense of happiness and contentment.
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We would eat in our cozy little apartment, and I'd sigh with contentment: This was just like my old life here — but now I had people to share it with.
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They had what I aspired to find: They finished each other's sentences, and exuded a refined contentment with each other that we sometimes think only exists in books and movies.
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It arrived as part of the effort, beginning in the 1990s, to build a "positive" psychology: a more complete understanding of sustaining qualities such as pride, forgiveness, grit and contentment.
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"One can be induced to purchase by cheapening price or giving away a product, but falling in love with a feeling of joy is the result of contentment," he wrote.
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The key to contentment is to treat your family with the same respect with which you'd treat the public, Mr. Brolin summarized three days later in the Baccarat Hotel in Midtown.
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I learned first-hand that once our basic needs are taken care of, the level of contentment and happiness we experience has nothing to do with how much wealth we have.
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In her new book, America the Anxious, Whippman explores the multibillion dollar happiness industry, and the question of why Americans always seem to be searching for contentment and never finding it.
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There was a rhythm and a repetition to the work that I liked, a sense of contentment in washing up at the night's end and putting things back where they belonged.
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As I neared the finish line of this 1,200-mile ride down the Ho Chi Minh Trail, I felt a sense of contentment and clarity that I had never experienced before.
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"That exchange of a very minor or small smile, look of contentment can be all it takes to convey, in a strange way, the simplest thing, which is trust," she said.
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Separated from his long-suffering wife, Christian is made even grumpier by the marital happiness of an old school friend, Oliver (Ewen Leslie, terrific), whose familial contentment acts as a goad.
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When they controlled for other variables, however, the study's authors found that the only "significant predictor" of contentment in a FWB relationship was being OK with doing something for someone else.
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But what first seems a serene vignette of domestic contentment, with the fishermen and their families settling in for the night, ultimately serves as a metaphor for a country weary from war.
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Happy spouses say that only 15 to 20 percent of their contentment comes from sex, though unhappy spouses say that 50 to 70 percent of their unhappiness is rooted in sexual problems.
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"We ... just hope our people can live in peace and contentment," said Lee Wing-lung, 66, a retired engineer standing opposite the hotel where Xi is staying, taking snapshots with his phone.
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Before I was a wife and a mother, I couldn't have imagined a life that lacked commitment to my own contentment, which has to do, at least in part, with sexual satisfaction.
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With these pledges, women have often offered testimonies for their reasons to strike, ranging from protesting sexist, racist work environments to being expected to keep up a facade of contentment at home.
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One expert says it's to actively cultivate well-being, which he defines as a sense of contentment in the knowledge that your life is flourishing and has meaning beyond your own pleasure.
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For a division that has been talking only about the distant future for years, it's a pragmatic strategy that probably signifies broader contentment with how things are looking on the hardware front.
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Although I don't have any science to back up this claim, I have noticed a similar 10–15% increase in my overall happiness and contentment since I started taking a daily cold shower.
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In a film filled with piercing performances, Joan Allen stands out as Elena Hood, mother to Wendy and Maguire's Paul, presenting a shell of happiness and contentment while tipping off the discontent underneath.
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And the contradiction between companies demanding more displays of contentment from workers, even as they put them on miserably short-term contracts and turn them into self-employed "partners", is becoming more stark.
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They did not understand that what he found unbearable was to be ignored, and for this she was grateful, because being in the news brought Donald the closest he could be to contentment.
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Sure, it would be great if Tormund's aggressive chicken-eating led to a full-fledged romance, but we tend not to get our hopes up when it comes to characters' contentment on GoT.
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They cooked Sunday suppers, sang as they hand-washed the dishes, groused and gossiped and generally found contentment in the simplest of lives, one necessarily small because of poverty and lack of opportunity.
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Every few years, a new book is published reminding us that true contentment — or happiness, as we insist on calling it — is achievable only by doing less: less working, less texting, less consumption.
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A democracy, when it is working correctly, allows men and women to develop into free people; but it falls to us as individuals to use that opportunity to find purpose, joy and contentment.
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Even though we might try to manage our emotional well-being through things like talk therapy, self-care apps, meditation, and medication, it's easy to feel like contentment remains just beyond our grasp.
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Best of all, it sees Steff making gags with great timing: "Stacking money like a real don / and I'm piff," she winks, and her contentment with and relaxation into her skill is palpable.
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This helps explain why conservatives test happier than liberals and religious people report higher well-being than the non-religious: A defined social order, and a clear place in it, can bring contentment.
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A human's level of happiness is linked to their genetic makeup, according to a researcher who carried out groundbreaking work in the area—but it's nearly impossible to modify genes to boost your contentment.
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Eventually it began to rain and the window of the bar fogged up, obscuring Kurt's view, though by then he was already too disappointed by her contentment to care about what he couldn't see.
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They had the audacity to compose it in the key of G major, which, in Baroque music, is regarded as the "key of benediction"—connected to positive emotions such as contentment, gratitude and peace.
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And while it's a home comprised of boys, Phelps says his wife has voiced her contentment with being the lone woman among her family unit — which prompted an adorable reply from their oldest child.
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It served as a reminder of how the characters in this story rarely exist for long in a state of pure joy, or merely even contentment, before they are undercut by disappointment or devastation.
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Most defensemen tabbed with the "stay at home" label will usually talk about their contentment with playing tough in their zone, checking and just being happy to contribute in some way to a victory.
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Dr. Hanson, author of "Hardwiring Happiness: The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm, and Confidence," said it may be helpful to ask yourself if you are accomplishing anything by dwelling on your negative thoughts.
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If you can see that your effort daily helps you grow 1 percent better then you will find moments of happiness and contentment with where you have come instead of seeing where you are going.
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Erdogan and Putin also voiced contentment regarding Turkey and Russia's ongoing cooperation in the energy and defence industry sectors, the source said, adding that the two leaders had also discussed the latest developments in Syria.
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The Ten of Cups card was at the center of the story, which I was told meant that contentment, happiness and a loving, long-term relationship made up the current theme of my inner thoughts.
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Mr Xu charges China's ruler with breaking the bargain underpinning the post-Mao era, that the people will tolerate one-party rule as long as they are left alone to seek prosperity and personal contentment.
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As you break bad habits and get comfortable in a new routine, you feel good about the emotional work you've done over the years and ready to seek a peaceful life of contentment at home.
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Researchers have found that the euphoria, decreased inhibition, and contentment that often come with use of the drug may be beneficial to those who suffer with PTSD, including military veterans, conflict journalists, and trauma survivors.
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These are elegant, efficient songs Friedberger is a good singer and a better writer, and she doesn't have any problems mining contentment for songs that unfurl with the elegance and efficiency of fine short stories.
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Paired with Whit Travisano's Rhodes keyboard and Thomas Reno's ambient and subtle guitar licks and, occasionally, Lebleu's impressive use of a vibraphone, you'd be hard pressed to find any listener not smiling in blissful contentment.
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"I think that happily ever after can sometimes be romantic happiness and sometimes it can be a feeling of contentment with your life, as a professional and as a mother," she said at the panel.
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Given the novelty of "Dat Stick," few listeners could have anticipated the charm of "Amen," which is filled with moments of teen-age innocence—one track is about Imanuel losing his virginity—and earnest contentment.
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They, too, seem victims of the fundamental disunity in the secularized modern self: the split between public and private worlds, largely caused by the pursuit of contentment through inconstant desires for wealth, fame and power.
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A 2015 study by Ryne Sherman, Sonja Lyubomirsky and Jean M. Twenge in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science found that while contentment used to come with age, our older people are no longer happy.
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His family gathers around like the court of a king, recognizing the value contained within something that somehow stands no taller than anyone's waist, and he, the king, allows his face to repose in total contentment.
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The level of precision involved means recreating these cookies is about as easy to making actual ramen at home, but there's some level of non-aspirational contentment in watching someone really talented just do their thing.
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While Snell did initially pause to give the man in the crowd some choice words, she said the real comeback came later, when she finished the marathon, and the feeling of contentment that came with it.
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In the West especially, we're saddled with an ambition that teaches us that if we can just get X, Y, and Z, we'll be happy, life will be good, we'll have reached a place of contentment.
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At this point, we start to witness two human beings display a level of overwhelming contentment that's rarely seen anywhere outside of an advert for a brand of posh-looking beers or an unaffordable holiday home.
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"As income increases, as you rise in the rankings of household income, your tendencies -- or daily experiences -- of pride, amusement, contentment go up, and your experience of compassion and love and awe go down," Piff said.
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" On a day when millions of American women marched in the face of what they feel is an existential threat to their rights, Putin said we only need look to the contentment of Russian woman and "relax.
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The central characters include Pearl, who works for the company that makes the machines and believes in the guidance of their individualized "contentment plans" to the extent that she steadfastly uses them to balance her own life.
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Cannabidiol, a nonpsychoactive chemical derived from hemp (and cousin to THC, the compound that gets you stoned), promises bliss without blur: a relaxing and pain-relieving feeling of contentment and calm — without the giggles or the munchies.
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For a man who has consumed more gak than there are fish in the sea, Anthony Kiedis remains so perennially mellow that just looking at his perfectly sculpted face gives me a feeling of deep-seated inner contentment.
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That famous domestic contentment with Sartre — the arrangement that permitted the couple to enjoy "contingent relationships" — was, in fact, the cause of much pain to Beauvoir, who also remained, in Bair's telling, deeply conflicted about her own sexuality.
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" Nic Lamb, one of the best big-wave surfers on the planet, speaking of his relentless pursuit of excellence in the water, puts it like this: "The best way to find contentment is to give it your all.
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Polls capture an unmistakable improvement in voter attitudes about the economy, but those same surveys show that Trump's standing is much weaker than that of any of his recent predecessors among the voters who express such economic contentment.
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His joyous art finally became authentic to a life of worldly success and domestic contentment with his second wife, Roselle Springer, and a son, whom they named George Earl, after the jazz musicians George Wettling and Earl Hines.
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And the gossip industry provides a rich, if anachronistic, narrative indeed: The approachable-seeming Ms. Aniston gets the better of a glamorous rival — Angelina Jolie — and finds contentment through being reunited with the supposed love of her life.
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So the interesting thing about what Eleven brings is this idea that maybe there are things beyond justice, in terms of being a father; maybe having happiness, maybe having contentment and having a life that isn't so job-oriented.
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While she remains faithful to Mr. Stallone, seeing every one of his films and, oddly, setting aside money for him in case his career falters, her own fight gives way to a state of contentment Rocky wouldn't exactly recognize.
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Happiness indexes point out similar issues each year that most likely contribute to people's well-being—money, proximity to family, a feeling that what you do is worthwhile, nice weather—but there also isn't necessarily one route to contentment.
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It seems both beautiful and foreign to American ears, for instance, to hear a factory worker proclaim that the idea of being driven to "produce, produce, produce" is a blight on the world, proposing that people seek contentment instead.
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The story of her life as she told it was wholesomely American, drenched in nostalgia: a father who worked shifts and a mother who stayed home, an almost mythic account of self-reliance, of moderation, of working-class contentment.
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As previous biographers have, she sees Mary's turbulent life in the context of the Romantic Movement, and as part of an early wave of feminism that ended in the conservative Victorian era and its careful presentation of domestic contentment.
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For instance, it seems both beautiful and foreign to American ears to hear a factory worker proclaim that the idea of being driven to "produce, produce, produce" is a blight on the world, proposing that people seek contentment instead.
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Not really, but that's OK. After a few hours of wandering around on AR Y-26 and soaking in the weird lore you uncover as you point your scanner every which way, a buzzy sense of contentment sets in.
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" Folk-rock electric guitar chords are soon joined by a hefty kick drum; she sings about past insecurities, current contentment and "Hoping I just stay the same, and nothing will change/And it'll be us, just for a while.
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With all the trappings of power, it can be easy for government leaders to start viewing their security bubble as less of a privilege and more as a commodity that exists to ensure their own personal contentment and comfort.
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It is such a cleverly observed, wickedly accurate book, a cautionary tale to all those happily married midlifers who are bored with contentment and think it might be fine to each have a brief time in the greener grass.
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You can probably fill in some of the blanks: Neeson's character sees his life of suburban contentment shattered, in this case after a mysterious woman, Joanna (Vera Farmiga), offers him $100,000 to identify another passenger on his commuter train.
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Though doing work you find meaningful ultimately contributes to a more lasting feeling of contentment, jobs where altruism are baked in—like health care and aid work—are often high stress environments commonly linked with poor mental health outcomes.
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The kind of road we've sketched in for Jonesy — and her real contentment at the idea of a life lived without a big, single romantic relationship at its core — is one of the paper trails that we'd want to follow.
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I'm a satisfied Android user, and I know for a fact (because I've reviewed every other major flagship out there) that no other Android device can bring me as close to mobile nirvana and contentment as these new Pixels do.
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For many, that's what yoga is at its core: not only an exercise routine embodied by the physical practice but a life path that asks its students to look inward, shun desire, move toward contentment and be truthful and nonviolent.
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Inside the CD booklet there's a picture of the Modesto Arch that has the words "Water, Wealth, Contentment, Health" printed across it in its early twentieth century twee capitalist enthusiasm and another of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power.
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We're just trying to be ourselves in a society that has put us into boxes, and has told us that if we don't fit in those boxes then we don't belong and we're not deserving of happiness, of fulfillment, of contentment.
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But while retirees who live extra cautiously may be securing the sense of contentment that comes with having the resources to deal with sudden expenses like long-term care, they may also be sacrificing quality of life to do it.
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Yes, they are easy to mock, and their gospel of health, wealth and contentment comes with the usual moral hazards: Too much faith in self-improvement glosses over structural injustices that place real limits on what's possible for many people.
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She's cherishing the cozy, intimate hush of the first morning of the New Year, "cleaning up bottles" with her significant other, praying the romantic contentment isn't as ephemeral as sense memory suggests, and vowing to stick around for the crappy, boring, domestic times.
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Her quiet contentment at getting to cook an old favorite dish with Claudia and Paige and her breaking a rule to bring Philip a taste of home show just how much Elizabeth values and is trying to remember where she came from.
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The singer was 16 when she wrote "A Letter to My Younger Self," a dreamy acoustic cut that explores self-awareness as something infinite, and shares a reassuring promise of future safety and contentment, to a past version of herself that needed it.
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"There are few things that can cause joy, shame, contentment, anxiety and stress the way that money does," said Korrena Bailie, a financial journalist and senior editor of personal finance at Wirecutter, a New York Times company that reviews and recommends products.
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"'Seagulls' is about using positive affirmations and visualization to inspire self-growth--- feeling unafraid to change your ways in order to find true contentment," says Brendon Avalos, the bassist and singer for this particular song (he and guitarist Britton Walker often share vocals).
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File under "why does this exist" but also "I don't hate it" – there is literally no reason in seven hells to make a bobblehead of the Night King holding a baseball bat, yet the end product elicits feelings of pleasant surprise and even contentment.
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THIS SENSE OF contentment continued through another day of island hopping to Tofto, Vardo and Aloren; on a visit to Kastelholm, a medieval castle surrounded by fjordlike bays; on my daily walk by the waterfront near midnight, after the last ray of sunshine vanished.
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In an interview with ESPN last week, he placed some of the blame on young American players themselves, lamenting a sense of "contentment" in youth national team players who seem unwilling, or unable, to force their way past older pros and onto the field.
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For Don Robitaille, 84, a retired soda machine repairman who had driven his camper here from Maine for the contentment of sitting on a beach chair with a book of puzzles and an open view of the ocean, it was still a perfect getaway.
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But if I could speak to my teenage self or to any teenager who feels plunged in despair, I'd tell him or her to hang in there, because happiness, or at least something like contentment, might just be a game of learning to stick around.
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Our refusal seemed to provide them with a curious, even paradoxical contentment — my brother and I might not need them to stay alive (we would like them to, but like is not the same as need), but Fred did, or so they could believe.
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Me Before You was undoubtedly one of the weepiest books I've read in recent memory, but with Still Me, I found myself tearing up not from sadness, but rather contentment with how purely realistic Moyes portrays Louisa's difficult journey to find her true purpose in life.
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"It's an interesting time for me right now, because I'm very, very happy, probably the happiest I've been, and I can see my work ironically be affected by my personal life," Mr. Brolin said of his hard-won contentment upon laying his bad-boy reputation to rest.
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She's all about separating work, play and rest, and if you're looking for balance in your life, "putting the bed in the middle of the room facing the southeast region creates an aura of calmness and contentment in your relationship, life and in career," she said.
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The world number one cut a rare study in contentment at Wimbledon on Saturday as she talked of how her recent triumph at the French Open, after having three times suffered the agony of losing a slam final, had given her a real sense of release.
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They are one of the primary reasons that programs like Northern Iowa and Butler have emerged, and Few's quiet contentment with the job he has likely serves as an inspiration to coaches like Northern Iowa's Ben Jacobson as they decide whether to move up the ladder.
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Psychologists have long maintained that after a brief period of sometimes intense bereavement, the vast majority of surviving spouses adjust well, returning to their previous work, daily routines and prior state of contentment within a few months to a year – a psychological outcome referred to as resilience.
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That style is typified by the first moments of standout, "Déjà vu," in which Porter imbues a simple run of notes with what feels like the entire spectrum of human feeling—joy, longing, contentment, perseverance and so much more all ineffably balanced on his every exhale.
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They found that the crowdsourced analysis of the vocal bursts fit into at least 24 distinct kinds of emotion, including amusement, anger, awe, confusion, contempt, contentment, desire, disappointment, disgust, distress, ecstasy, elation, embarrassment, fear, interest, pain, realization, relief, sadness, positive and negative surprise, sympathy, and triumph.
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Having spent the last few years researching and writing a book about happiness and anxiety in America, I've noticed that this particular strain of happiness advice — the kind that pitches the search for contentment as an internal, personal quest, divorced from other people — has become increasingly common.
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Awe and contentment accompany her everywhere, she said: on a leisurely subway ride to Manhattan, hearing a doo-wop a cappella group perform on a sidewalk or taking a bus ride to a Long Island shopping center to help a fellow resident pick out some new clothes.
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Rather than promoting constant happiness, Seligman lays out a pathway for people to create meaningful lives full of optimism, drawing on examples from the real world that range from the US Army's training on emotional resilience, to the strategies corporations use to improve performance and workplace contentment.
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In our modern society the role of mind-altering drugs to achieve heightened consciousness and/or contentment has yet to be determined, and will require careful scientific investigation in controlled settings along with philosophical and ethical debate before the public can be trusted with the key to nirvana.
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When you strike a goal off your list, you might experience a temporary surge of happiness or satisfaction, but then you will inevitably settle back to a level of contentment â€" or lack thereof â€" dictated by the quality of your day-to-day lifestyle as well as your perspective.
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Since President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE was elected in 2202, this gauge of the country's contentment has trended distinctly higher.
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But I was also wary of the fact that the essay was so successful precisely because it was aspirational, and because it followed the formula we accept and celebrate most often from women writers: Woman has trouble believing in herself; woman finds self-acceptance and contentment through someone else's love.
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The heart-wrenching crescendo of "Runaway" (2010), the hushed contentment of "Only One" (2014) and the icy warning calls of "Wolves" (2014); it's a computerised cry that has come to define the West sound, and marks perhaps one of the most seamless and long-lasting marriages between hip-hop and experimental instrumentation.
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In the end, however, Ms. Duke found contentment in an enduring fourth marriage; the presidency of the Screen Actors Guild; the proper diagnosis and treatment of her bipolar disorder; her public lobbying for causes including mental health, AIDS awareness and nuclear disarmament; and a renewed television career that brought her three Emmys.
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Plus, he's coming back to face Tony Ferguson, a talented fighter in the midst of a seven-fight winning streak who is not only unburdened by outsized expectations and anatomical paranoia, but who spent his last weekend bathing in the glow of religious contentment, not drowning in a sea of religious controversy.
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America First Action, a political committee aligned with Mr. Trump, conducted a series of focus groups over the summer and concluded the party had a severe voter-turnout problem, brought on in part by contentment about the economy and a refusal by Republicans to believe that Democrats could actually win the midterm elections.
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This approach to life explains why so many elderly people interviewed by Karl Pillemer, a gerontologist and director of the Cornell Legacy Project, for his book "30 Lessons for Living" for which I wrote the preface, expressed greater contentment in their old age despite coping with disabilities none of us would wish for.
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In his 2012 book, "Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-Being," he explored how well-being consists not merely of feeling happy (an emotion that can be fleeting) but of experiencing a sense of contentment in the knowledge that your life is flourishing and has meaning beyond your own pleasure.
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" But it is the story of a lesbian relationship, and what made it obscene, according to the presiding magistrate, was that lesbian sex "is described as giving these women extraordinary rest, contentment, and pleasure; and not merely that, but it is actually put forward that it improves their mental balance and capacity.
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But I'd say fun is too frivolous (a) word for the contentment, the concentration, the peace of mind I experience when I draw or paint … Old in Art School appeals not just to those who dream about becoming late-in-life artists, but anyone who grapples with how to direct their energies post-retirement.
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Joyful by Ingrid Fetell Lee Lee, a designer, breaks down the aesthetic elements that induce feelings of contentment, wonder and glee: lush bouquets and bright colors, balloons bobbing in the air, gardens hidden in the city neighborhoods, the glow of sunlight against pale yellow walls, a silly pair of socks, the perfect harmony of a Rockettes' kick line.
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This dispiriting contentment is the sentiment you see from some of Trump's blue-collar supporters, who love his uncouth rhetorical war on his fellow coastal elites so much that they're willing to forgive him his threadbare policy agenda or else trust that gridlock and inertia will protect them from Republican bills whose actual contents they might probably oppose.
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I've no doubt that it also comes from the contentment of having been transported into a moment in history when a war seemed truly winnable; when the special relationship between the United Kingdom and the United States was in its honeymoon phase; and when the line between good guys and bad guys seemed fixed and unblurred.
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That feeling of contentment and validation was upon me once again this weekend as I listened to Invasion of Privacy, the highly anticipated debut album from Cardi B. Despite her status a mom-to-be and new fiancée, Invasion of Privacy includes tracks and lyrics that add it to a long musical tradition of female rage, and I'm here for it.
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We know that daily meditation and gentle yet stimulating exercise is supposed to fill you with contentment and an unshakable sense of presence, but think about it for a minute: does anything actually beat the fuzzy influx of endorphins that comes from sitting in your favourite corner of the pub, pint in hand, slurrily dissecting the week's events with your BFFs?
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In short, the pursuit of pleasure is not confined to our hero alone but extended to all comers, with a horny democratic good will, and it's typical of Korine to suggest that, in an era as acrimonious as ours, the true provocation is to harbor no grudges, to forgive us our trespasses, and to drift along, catching the tide of contentment.
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This is happiness framed as journey of self-discovery, rather than the natural byproduct of engaging with the world; a happiness that stresses emotional independence rather than interdependence; one based on the idea that meaningful contentment can be found only by a full exploration of the self, a deep dive into our innermost souls and the intricacies and tripwires of our own personalities.
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Also coming stateside in January is "How to Hygge: The Nordic Secrets to a Happy Life," by Signe Johansen, a chef and food writer, to be followed in February by "The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Contentment, Comfort and Connection," by Louisa Thomsen Brits, who is half-Danish and half-British and who sells Danish furniture from hygge.
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It's hard to pin one definitive label on all this clattering emotional noise, but I'm confident that if you add them all up and then divide by the number of emotions (or whatever other formula they use to calculate the statistics in all the research studies on happiness that I start to notice in the press), then you reach an average falling squarely into the box marked contentment.
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In 1851, the year it began publishing, The Times ran two holiday gift-book guides — one for adults, which recommended such titles as "The Women of Early Christianity" and "Legends of the Flowers" ("imaginary conversations between lilies, jasmines, violets and the rest"), and one for children, which highlighted "Queer Bonnets" ("a story with a very excellent moral for these days of lavish dress") and "Contentment Is Better than Wealth" ("admirable tales for young folks").
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"One of the feelings of pride and contentment and gratitude that I had when Lover came out was this sense of being so thankful that after so long of being denied the rights to music that I had made and created, I finally felt like I was in a place where I had aligned myself with generous people," says the 10-time Grammy winner, whose first six albums were all released under Big Machine.
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"One of the feelings of pride and contentment and gratitude that I had when Lover came out was this sense of being so thankful that after so long of being denied the rights to music that I had made and created, I finally felt like I was in a place where I had aligned myself with generous people," says the 10-time Grammy winner, whose first six albums were all released under Big Machine.
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So I think that the whole video that we made for "Inheritance," we were kind of going against this big-money, celebritized idea and trying to kind of convey this ttitude that was like, "We're a part of this, but we don't want to—" and there's no contentment or anything or aggression, but we wanted to kind of expose that we're living here in this thing, and we sort of feel a certain way about it.
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"The mistake is to confuse career success, financial success and reputation with happiness," said Andrew Delbanco, a Columbia University professor who is the president of the Teagle Foundation, which promotes liberal arts education, and the author of the 2012 book "College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be." Delbanco added that an important component of real contentment is figuring out what lights your emotional and intellectual fires, not necessarily for the purpose of a job but for the purpose of reflections and pastimes that fill in all those hours away from work.
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