Quotes About Contentment

I felt she had two unhappy marriages, it was wonderful the way it was. When Audrey would be asked, she'd also say, 'Why mess with a good thing?' I remember her saying to one interviewer it's more romantic this way because it's not another piece of paper, but out of loyalty to each other that binds us together.

At the end of the day, as long as you kind of focus on what you can do and what you can achieve and what's in front of you, that's all you can be doing and all you should be doing. Anything else is probably unhealthy.

Once I should have been, if not satisfied, partially, at least, contented with suffrage for the intelligent and those who have been soldiers; now I am convinced that universal suffrage is demanded by sound policy and impartial justice.

There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy.

Let's choose today to quench our thirst for the 'good life' we thinks others lead by acknowledging the good that already exists in our lives. We can then offer the universe the gift of our grateful hearts.

I don't feel like, unless I have a boyfriend or somebody to march down the aisle with for the fifth time, that I'm 'Oh, poor me.' I'm not going to go running out desperately looking, making myself crazy and thinking that, without that, I'm nothing.

It is not true that one cannot live without a woman. It is simply that one cannot have lived without one.

There is only one way of victory over the bitterness and rage that comes naturally to us--To will what God wills brings peace.

Happiness is achieved when you stop waiting for your life to begin and start making the most of the moment you are in.

The happiest people I have known in this world have been the Saints-and, after these, the men and women who get immediate and conscious enjoyment from little things.

Nuns and married women are equally unhappy, if in different ways.

People don't live nowadays: they get about ten percent out of life.

happy women get softer and rounder.

He who has found a good wife has found great happiness, but a quarrelsome woman is like a roof that lets in the rain.

A man who admires a fine woman, has yet not more reason to wish himself her husband, than one who admired the Hesperian fruit, would have had to wish himself the dragon that kept it.

[from a reader] I hope she learns to look for the joy in life instead of picking out negatives - it will change her life for the better.

Women are angels, wooing: Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing: That she beloved knows naught, that knows not this-- Men prize the thing ungained more than it is.

Happiness is being married to your best friend.

Don't complain about what you don't have. Use what you've got. To be less than your best is a sin.

Most women would not be happy being me. People say, 'But you're alone.' But I don't feel alone. I feel very un-alone.

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

Life is easier when you are comfortable in your own skin.

My definition of happiness is having something to do what you love to do, someone to love, and something to look forward to.

I'm not part of the Hollywood scene. I don't run around with 30 women. I have a very calm household. I'm surrounded by my grandkids and wonderful friends, and I consider myself very lucky.