Quotes About Contentment

Friends and family, and a man who loved her just the way she was. Life didn't get a bit better than that!

Beggars can't be choosers.

The goat boy never gloats.

As in, what makes you the happiest? You said you hate college. What makes peace in your heart? That's your passion.

No place is lonely if you are happy there

Just remember, when you're old and alone, money makes a really poor companion.

May your life be filled with sunshine to warm your faces, laughter to feed your soul, and happiness every single day.

late. She'd barely gotten comfortable

Happy is one of the many things I'm likely to be over the course of a day and certainly over the course of a lifetime. But I think if you have the expectation that you're going to be happy throughout your life--more to the point, if you have a need to be comfortable all the time--well, among other things, you have the makings of a classic drug addict or alcoholic.

The quiet room was too peaceful and comfortable to worry in.

Solange ich glücklich war, war ich ein ganz guter Mensch.

My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.

Maud: Young women are never happy. Betty: Mother, what a thing to say. Maud: Then when they're older they look back and see that comparatively speaking they were ecstatic.

As he tightened his embrace around her, he knew he'd made the right choice. He held the whole world in his arms.

Come and sit down girl, for days you've been flying around there like a bluebottle.

The secret of her calm seemed to be that she was not trying to prove anything. She was—that was all. And her stance toward life seemed to say: God is—and that is enough.

Don't need no more of this world's goods. Some folks gits plumb mesmerized when paper money is shook afore their eyes.

The cry of the flesh: not to be hungry, not to be thirsty, not to be cold. For if someone has these things and is confident of having them in the future, he might contend even with Zeus for happiness. ~ Epicurus

Peace of mind comes in the strangest boxes.

Now I'll give you some advice, since you been asking for it. Happiness is like them plants you been yapping about. Sometimes it's growing right in your own backyard and you don't even know it.

But there was a different kind too, a slow, quiet contentment that built gradually over time, a feeling based on trust and fortitude, on the shared experiences of raising children, on grief and hardship and joy.

Because in the end, the measure of a well-lived life is not titles or riches. It's not even measured by the people we please, especially at the cost of our own souls. No, the true measure of a well-lived life is how well we love…and how well we are loved in return.

Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.

For some people, small, beautiful events are what life is all about.