Quotes About Contentment

A multitude of small delights constitute happiness

If you're smart, you keep happiness to yourself.

Es lo único que voy a decir sobre este tema por ahora. Como dice Chloé, hay cosas a las que más vale no darles muchas vueltas. Si quieres leer algo, lee el espacio blanco que queda en esta página. Soy yo, el que está en ese espacio.

You are a real find and you keep me satisfied, up to a point. After all, I'm a malcontent and you can't change that.

Gainfully unemployed, very proud of it, too.

When you're in love you don't have to do a damn thing. You can just be. You can just stay quiet in the world. You don't have to move an inch.

being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.

That was all I needed when she smiled at me, all the other stupid, ugly stuff just drifted away.

To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them.

Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.

True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.

Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.

To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

You'll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile.

I do not need drugs to be a genius, do not take a genius to be human, but I need your smile to be happy.

You will find that life's still worthwhile... if you just smile!

My ideal life is a quiet one. I like to read, to sit still in the same chair, with the lampshade at a certain angle, alone, or with Meagan nearby, and now and then, if I'm lucky, I'll come across a lovely phrase or fine sentiment, look up from my book, and feel the harmony of some notion, the justice of it, and know that everything is there. That's life to me, those privately discovered moments. I wouldn't settle for less, yet I don't expect a whole lot more, either.

A car to pick me up every day, a chair with my name on it, everybody being very polite... what can you do except sit back and watch it all, try to take it all in?

A glass of happiness fills whole body. (Un verre de bonheur - Remplit tout le corps)

Last breath is rare, therefore expensive. However, we prefer to stay poor ... (Dernier soupir est rare, donc cher. - Pourtant, on préfère rester pauvre...)

The echo of happiness bounces against a wall. (L'écho du bonheur - S'entend contre un mur.)

The key to happiness is not on the lock. (La clé du bonheur N'est sur la serrure)

We are jealous our close neighbors, but not the sun and its care. (Nous jalousons nos proches voisins, - Mais pas le soleil et ses soins.) [Fables1, The Ant / La Fourmi]