Quotes About Contentment

I'm happy to sacrifice a big pay cheque for my happiness, if that's not too corny a thing to say. It's probably more naive than mature to say that, maybe, but that's how I feel.

Every day I don't Google my name, there's another beautiful day.

Brand names aren't important to me at all.

I went to L.A. to be Brad Pitt; now I just want to be Gene Hackman. I came to Nashville to be Kenny Chesney. I'd be very fortunate to be George Strait.

I don't really care how people see me in my natural state, in a comfortable state.

You've got to make yourself happy. I'm a happy person naturally.

I love when people are just naturally happy people.

I don't want a girl who's high-maintenance and wants to go shopping... I like a girl who doesn't wear make-up and is naturally beautiful.

I'm not naturally an extrovert. I'm a writer - I sit in a room by myself making things up. That is where I'm happiest.

I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.

It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.

There is only one way to achieve lasting happiness. That way is simply: Be happy.

There is only one way to achieve lasting happiness. That is simply: Be happy.

If you would be happy and content, you must let go of regret and resentment. Any regret or resentment for what has been done to you or even for harmful things you have done to others dispels your happiness.

If who you are and what you have is what you want, that's perfect. Keep doing what you've been doing and you'll get more of it.

She gave me peace To want is to lack. That is what it means.

Don't confuse contentment with happiness...

They were happy, and free, and the endless sky awaited them. It was enough.

to Tocqueville, and reiterated by Robert Bellah and collaborators in their landmark study of American life Habits of the Heart, this pursuit of what one does not have makes it difficult for people to form bonds with one another. Their minds "are more anxious and on edge." Because "they clutch everything," they can "hold nothing fast.

I want you to know that it is pleasure, not pain, that is your birthright.

We are not proponents of long life. We are proponents of joyful life, and when you find yourself in joy, the longevity usually follows. We do not count the success of a life by its length; we count it by its joy. — ABRAHAM

me. That's what it does. Nothing is ever enough. You get more, and more, but you're never happy. It's a trap baited with all the things you want most. That life—it's not worth living.

As God is my witness, I could do nothing but look upon her till the end of my days. I would need nothing else to keep me alive.

She'd melted onto the cushions, almost numb with satiation, and with a chuckle that had sounded both diabolical and satisfied, he'd picked her up and carried her to her bedchamber.