Quotes About Contentment

I want you to know that this is what happens when you meet the person you are supposed to spend the rest of your life with: that restless feeling dissolves like butter. I

Will let out a breath he felt like he'd been holding his entire life.

No one understood striving for second place. It was un-American. "She just wanted peace

Love doesn't keep you in a constant state of turmoil. It gives you peace.

Buy what you don't have yet, or what you really want, which can be mixed with what you already own. Buy only because something excites you, not just for the simple act of shopping

I think happiness is a bit like a cake. If you have cake every single day of your life you'll get sick of it. If you're happy everyday, you'll get sick of being happy… That's a good saying actually. Happiness is like a cake. Have too much and you'll get sick of it.

If you're worrying about the colour of your anus, things must be good, as you can't have proper worries in your life.

For example, do we think that we have to HAVE money so we can DO the fun things in life that we want to do, so we can BE happy? In reality it's just the other way around. We are better off BE-ing first, so that we can DO, so that we can HAVE. HAVING is a natural by-product of BE-ing.

Life is too precious to be unhappy.' Ursula wondered how many people across London were saying the same thing that night. Perhaps in less salubrious surroundings. And there would be others, of course, who would be saying the same words to cleave to what they already had, not to discard it on a whim. Suddenly

She'd had a glimpse of a possible future-the pretty cottage, the garden full of flowers and vegetables, bread in the oven, a bowl of strawberries on the table, the happy baby hitched on her hip while she threw corn to the chickens. It would be like a Hardy novel before it all goes wrong.

Life is too precious to be unhappy.

She] went around with a beatific smile on her face that could be very irritating if you yourself weren't feeling beatific.

She would be happy -- but not excessively so....

Another day where nothing has happened, he thought. That was a good thing, he reminded himself. What was the Chinese curse? May you live in interesting times.

Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.

We see how much a man has, and therefore we envy him; did we see how little he enjoys, we should rather pity him.

Care, mad to see a man sae happy, E'en drouned himsel amang the nappy.

No man at all can be living forever and we must be satisfied.

Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness.

A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse. A very few pounds a year would ease a man of the scandal of avarice.

The form most contradictory to human life that can appear among the human species is the "self-satisfied man."

I don't sit around thinking that I'd like to have another husband; only another man would make me think that way.

Man is meant for happiness and this happiness is in him, in the satisfaction of the daily needs of his existence.

For some women, a man is their whole meal. For me, life is a full meal and a man is just the hot sauce. If a man wants to be my whole meal, I say, 'That's nice, baby, but right now, I'm already full.