Quotes About Contentment

Five of the sweetest words in the English language begin with H, which is only a breath — Heart, Hope, Home, Happiness, and Heaven. Heart is a hope-place, and home is a heart-place; and that man sadly mistaketh, who would exchange the happiness of home for anything less than heaven.

Don't put off your happy life.

I want to live each day for itself like a string of colored beads, and not kill the present by cutting it up in cruel little snippets to fit some desperate architectural draft for a taj mahal in the future.

No man is quick enough to enjoy life to the full.

The thing I'm most thankful for right now is elastic waistbands.

Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.

Wish for nothing so much that you forget to make it come true.

Old age needs so little but needs that little so much.

Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternative.

It is very easy to love alone.

Love, and love alone, is capable of giving you a happier life.

Learn to be alone and to like it. There is nothing more empowering or freeing than learning to like your own company.

Always have an attitude of gratitude.

I've reached a point in my life where it's the little things that matter… I was always a rebel and probably could have got much farther had I changed my attitude. But when you think about it, I got pretty far without changing attitudes. I'm happier with that.

No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.

A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.

Es ist ein Brauch von Alters her: Wer Sorgen hat, hat auch Likör. Doch wer zufrieden und vergnügt, sieht zu, daß er auch welchen kriegt.

It is good to be a cynic — it is better to be a contented cat — and it is best not to exist at all.

The way to live a happy beautiful life is to accept whatever comes and not care about what does not come.

Or so he understood it. If you have twelve treasured memories, his Uncle Arndt had once said as Münster sat on his knee, you will have led a happy life.

For a day, just for one day, Talk about that which disturbs no one And bring some peace into your Beautiful eyes.

When you see a person who has been given more than you in money and beauty, then look to those who have been given less.

If you love someone, why would you want that person to change?

She'd thought love was painful and agonizing and all about not good enough . But it was about fitting so well with someone that everything felt bright and crisp and right.