Quotes About Contentment

As long as I'm holding you, all of my dreams have already come true.

I want a house in the country. Just a cottage, with a fence and a cat to sit in my lap and a dog to sleep at my feet. A spot of earth for a graden with flowers as well as vegetables, food on the table, and a little leisure time in which to read the books I've not had time to read or just sit... in the sunshine.

What do you care if people talk? Those who talk cannot harm you. Why should you be worried? You should only think about those things that please you. You have only one life in this world: soon you'll reach your eternal rest.

His smile was warm, impossible to ignore, and did something to her insides, making her feel happy. Happiness wasn't something she was used to feeling and it shocked her a little.

The rest of my life isn't that long, so I don't know how big a compliment it is. One day? Two? She rubbed her chin along his chest. Stay humble, my man.

She'd been drawn to him before she met him. Immense satisfaction filled him. He liked that, more than liked it.

You were not born too late, my love. Accept what is and what has been given to us. A great gift, a priceless treasure. I am with you now and for all time.

If tomorrow never comes, today has been all I've ever wanted or needed.

He realized that as much as he wanted his Leopard to settle and feel contentment, claiming Ania Dover was really for himself. For him. He needed her. He was already addicted to her smile. To her brightness. But it was the way she brought peace to him that he needed. Once he felt that. He knew he couldn't live without it.

Money may not buy happiness, but it allows you to shop in better places for it.

I think growing older affects you in one of two ways,' said May. 'Either you sink into a state of perpetual fury, or you cease to get angry about anyone or anything. You make your peace with the world, and I want some peace.

Life is a very beautiful dream, he thought. I'm so glad I chose not to wake up from it just yet.

What is your idea of earthly happiness? To be vindicated in my own lifetime.

We can always be sure of one thing—that the messengers of discomfort and sacrifice will be stoned and pelted by those who wish to preserve at all costs their own contentment. This is not a lesson that is confined to the Testaments.

I'm very happy by myself--I'm lucky in that way--if I've got enough to read and something to write about and a bit of alcohol for me to add an edge, not to dull it.

these are the rewards of maturity, to be enjoyed only as we decline. We

This is a tightly planned little house. He often feels protected by its smallness; there is hardly room enough here to feel lonely.

It seemed to me then that to have published a book - any kind of book - would be the greatest possible happiness I could ask from life.

How delightful it is to be here.(Gym) If only one could spend one's entire life in this state of easygoing physical democracy.

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he begins to feel this utterly mysterious unsensational thing—not bliss, not ecstasy, not joy—just plain happiness. Das Glueck, le bonheur, la felicidad—they have given it all three genders, but one has to admit, however grudgingly, that the Spanish are right; it is usually feminine, that's to say, woman-created.

You think too much. Thinking will bring you nothing but suffering. Be simple.

Is it so hard for you to give up what you never had?

Compliment but do not covet.