Quotes About Contentment

I may never be happy but tonight I am content.

ache and ache to return to my proper place, which is curled up right there, sheltered and cherished

And to wait, taut, smiling, till evening, and the time after eight o'clock, again, to the time you go to bed, which is yours, which is brief and private.

Bez tej mi?o?ci mo?na ?y?, mie? serce suche jak orzeszek, malutki los naparstkiem pi? z dala od zgryzot i pociesze? (...)

Why speak of love? We were used to each other.

Money is extremely important in the areas in which it works, and extremely unimportant in the areas in which it doesn't.

Céntrate en lo que tienes, no en lo que no tienes.

Si no aprecias lo que tienes, no obtendrás nada más y no necesitas más.

When you stopped to think about it, he reflected, there weren't many things in life one truly needed. To want too much was worse than greed: it was stupidity—a waste of precious time and effort. The

Now, ten or more years later, far away from her home or even any thought of having a home, she again touched the feeling from that long ago day, being alone but not lonely, of being solitary yet sufficient.

To want too much was worse than greed: it was stupidity—a waste of precious time and effort.

One should treasure those humdrum tasks that keep the body occupied but leave the mind and heart unfettered

Do not brood too much over what went before or worry too much over what is to come. Between those two is everything that matters--all that is.

When you stopped to think about it, he reflected, there weren't many things in life one truly needed. To want too much was worse than greed: it was stupidity - a waste of precious time and effort.

Happy people have neither age nor memory, they have no need of the past.

The most precious things in life are not those you get for money. —Albert Einstein

When the question is Why do you want to be happy? the answer is simple and definitive. We pursue happiness because it is in our nature to do so. When the answer to a question is Because it will make me happy, nothing can challenge the validity and finality of the answer. Happiness is the highest on the hierarchy of goals, the end toward which all other ends lead.

not money or prestige, should be regarded as the ultimate currency—the currency by which we take measure of our lives.

We no longer accumulate to live; we live to accumulate.

It is doubtful whether any heavier curse could be imposed on man than the complete gratification of all his wishes without effort on his part, leaving nothing for his hopes, desires or struggles."6

Your life might be easier if you were. A fool for love is happier than a Dog with a heart that's all leather.

Faithful: When will you learn to leave well enough alone? Alanna sighed. When I want to stop learning, I guess.

The wolf who sings alone is not happy.

It was almost warm for the first day of New Year; she was dressed comfortably; she had a good horse and Faithful with her and Coram at her side. Roger's death was bad, she thought, but life could be much, much worse. Perhaps I'll live and be happy after, all.