Quotes About Contentment

You can be smart and happy or stupid and miserable. . . it's your choice

Through all of living have much joy and laughter, life is to be enjoyed, not just endured.

The cause of most of man's unhappiness is sacrificing what he wants most for what he wants now.

Contented children are valuable, as is the peace that surrounds them.

People who don't make something good of what they've got are bound to end up desperate.

I've known a boy. I've measured beauty. What more do I want?

There is always a lot to be thankful for, if you take the time to look. For example, I'm sitting here thinking how nice it is that wrinkles don't hurt.

I am now old enough to no longer have a fear of dying young.

Middle age is when we can do just as much as ever — but would rather not.

...for so a wise man shall overrule his stars, and have a greater influence upon his own content than all the constellations and planets of the firmament.

Whatever is — is best.

Wag more. Bark less.

Scratch less, purr more.

What do I want to be when I grow up? Happy. I want to be happy. And useful, loved, loving, healthy, wise, free, strong.

Don't say it's all going to be good again someday. It's still good now — if you really look.

Better weak beer than an empty cask.

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

Happiness breathes when you do.

Breathe open fields of calm and content. Don't clang your lungs against your burdens. A constricted life needn't constrict your breath.

Better bread with water than cake with trouble.

But the place which you have selected for your camp, though never so rough and grim, begins at once to have its attractions, and becomes a very centre of civilization to you: "Home is home, be it never so homely."

We now no longer camp as for a night, but have settled down on earth and forgotten heaven.

The best alarm clock is the purring kind.

If purring could be encapsulated, it would be the most powerful antidepressant on the market.