Quotes About Contentment

It's sad. He likes it where the wine is, and the smiles.

Never ask the baker what went into the pie. Just eat.

It doesn't matter what we want, once we get it, then we want something else." - Lord Baelish

Wealth, like a tree, grows from a tiny seed. The first copper you save is the seed from which your tree of wealth shall grow. The sooner you plant that seed the sooner shall the tree grow. And the more faithfully you nourish and water that tree with consistent savings, the sooner may you bask in contentment beneath its shade.

There is only one happiness in life to love and to be loved.

One is happy as a result of one's own efforts once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness: simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self denial to a point, love of work, and above all, a clear conscience.

One is happy once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness: simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self denial to a point, love of work, and above all, a clear conscience.

One is happy as a result of one's own efforts once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness: simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self denial to a point, love of work, and above all, a clear conscience.

Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck.

Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.

There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.

It was that impossible thing: happiness that does not wilt to reveal the thin shoots of some new desire rising from within it.

The heart that is to be filled to the brim with holy joy must be held still.

Just this once, in the very heart of the busiest of cities, everyone was perfectly content not to move and hardly to breathe. And for those few minutes, while the song lasted, Times Square was still as a meadow at evening, with the sun streaming in on the people there and the wind moving among them as if they were only tall blades of grass.

Neatness was not one of the things he aimed at in life.

A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.

Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person's own mind, than on the externals in the world.

Is there anything more beautiful than gold?" - Freya's question. Plain-thoughted Thor spoke. "A farm at first light Is more beautiful than gold, or A ship's sails in the mist. Many ordinary things are far more beautiful.

We must be satisfied with the soup that is set before us, and not desire to see the bones of the ox out of which it has been boiled.

Happiness lies, first of all, in health.

Shall I wasting in despairDie because a woman's fair?Or make pale my cheeks with care'Cause another's rosy are?Be she fairer than the day,Or the flow'ry meads in May,If she be not so to me,What care I how fair she be?

To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problems of contentment.

Rzeczy drobne wydajÄ… siÄ™ nieistotne, ale to one zapewniajÄ… nam spokój.

To want nothing. Just to wait, until there is nothing left to wait for. Just to wander, and to sleep. To let yourself be carried along by the crowds, and the streets. To follow the gutters, the fences, the water's edge. To walk the length of the embankments, to hug the walls. To waste your time. To have no projects, to feel no impatience. To be without desire, or resentment, or revolt.