Quotes About Contentment

Life is so painful that even when we won happiness, we suffered by imagining miss it.

The biggest sign of happiness is when we pass to desire what we already have.

Does everybody ever want everything they can have? really?

Just the sight of him brought back everything that was good and homelike to her mind. It was like coming back to her own room after being away a long time with strangers. It was where she belonged.

Rob smiled his slow, infectious smile-and suddenly everything was all right.

After all," Anne had said to Marilla once, "I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.

Anne laughed. "I don't want sunbursts or marble halls, I just want you.

And if you couldn't be loved, the next best thing was to be let alone.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune, and favor cannot satisfy him.

Let us not envy a certain class of men for their enormous riches; they have paid such an equivalent for them that it would not suit us; they have given for them their peace of mind, their health, their honour, and their conscience; this is rather too dear, and there is nothing to be made out of such a bargain.

Happy the man who lives at home, making it his business to regulate his desires.

We are never so happy or unhappy as we think.

Before we passionately desire a thing, we should examine the happiness of its possessor.

If a man doesn't find ease in himself, 'tis in vain to seek it elsewhere.

Only yesterday I was full of worldly fancies, although religion had already some share in my thoughts: glory was still my daydream. Today my hopes are higher, and I covet here below nothing but obscurity and peace.

No news at 430 a.m. is good.

I don't care about money.

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.

Happiness is a rare plant that seldom takes root on earth-few ever enjoyed it, except for a brief period; the search after it is rarely rewarded by the discovery, but there is an admirable substitute for it... a contented spirit.

Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet;In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet.

People who can't be alone have a problem. Loneliness is a luxury for people like me.

I am very boring, but it has allowed me to survive better than other people. If you don't drink, you don't smoke, and you don't do drugs, and you're not missing it and never even wanted it, and you sleep for seven hours. I tell you, life is quite pleasant.

Happiness wasn't a mystical place to be reached or won--some bright terrain beyond the boundary of misery, a paradise waiting for them to find it--but something to carry doggedly with you through everything, as humble and ordinary as your gear and supplies.