Quotes About Contentment

You need a building permit. But no permit needed for happiness. (Il faut un permis de construire. Mais pas besoin pour le bonheur)

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Then trust me there's nothing like drinking, So pleasant on this side of the grave: It keeps the unhappy from thinking, And makes e'en the valiant more brave.

Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.

There might be some credit in being jolly.

Oh let us love our occupations,Bless the squire and his relations,Live upon our daily rations,And always know our proper stations.

Anythin' for a quiet life, as the man said wen he took the sitivation at the lighthouse.

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and are famous preservers of youthful looks.

There is always something for which to be thankful.

Reflect upon your present blessings -- of which every man has many -- not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six , result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery

Give me a moment, because I like to cry for joy. It's so delicious, John dear, to cry for joy.

He went to the church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and for, and patted the children on the head, and questioned beggars, and looked down into the kitchens of homes, and up to the windows, and found that everything could yield him pleasure. He had never dreamed of any walk, that anything, could give him so much happiness. (p. 119)

There was something very comfortable in having plenty of stationery.

Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.

He thought of the number of girls and women she had seen marry, how many homes with children in them she had seen grow up around her, how she had contentedly pursued her own lone quite path-for him. ~ Stephen speaking of Rachael

I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall do till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.

His own heart laughed: and that was quite enough for him.

I could settle down into a state of equable low spirits, and resign myself to coffee.

why should I seek to change, what has been so precious to me for so long! you can never show better than as your own natural self

As to any sense of inequality, or youthfulness, or other difficulty in our way, little Em'ly and I had no such trouble, because we had no future. We made no more provision for growing older, than we did for growing younger.

Money can't buy a happy life, or a peaceful death.