Quotes About Contentment

For the rest of the morning they worked quietly ad steadily, realizing that their contentment here at Uncle Monty's house did not erase their parents' death, not at all, but at least it made them feel better after feeling so sad, for so long.

No, no,' Phil Said. 'It's fine. I've never liked my left leg so much, anyways.

Duncan kept his hand on Violet's and talked to her about terrible concerts he had attended back when the Quagmire parents were alive, and she was happy to hear his stories. Isadora began working on a poem about libraries and showed Klaus what she had written in her notebook, and Klaus was happy to offer suggestions. And Sunny snuggled down in Violet's lap and chewed on the armrest of her seat, happy to bite something that was so sturdy.

I liked this bread.

As I have said, I prefer a shop which sells one thing to a shop which sells many things, and a supermarket, of course, tries to sell everything, and there is always something distrustful about a place so eager to please.

I don't want a happily ever after, Callum. I need an ending. No spin-offs or sequels. Just a standalone. And maybe someday, I'll get to hear your epilogue.

None of my actions have ever sort of been motored by the search for a husband or wondering if I was going to have a family someday or wanting to live in a really great house or thinking it would be really great to have a diamond.

Happiness is just how you feel when you don't feel miserable.

Living is easy with eyes closed Misunderstanding all you see It's getting hard to be someone but it all works out It doesn't matter much to me

I believe this intense adaptability gave me the freedom to be happy anywhere.

Relish love in your old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more intoxicating!

Every moment spent in unhappiness is a moment of happiness lost.

A single rose can be my garden; a single friend, my world.

Life is a paradise for those who love many things with a passion.

He liked to recall a statement the seventeenth-century diplomat William Temple made in retirement, that the gratifications of the public world are as nothing compared with "old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to converse with, and old books to read.

Six feet of land was all that he needed.

Ninguém está contente com a sua sorte, nem descontente do seu espírito.

Assim, pois, apesar ou talvez devido à sua solidão, a sua vida se tornou extremamente cheia.

If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.

If you love me as you say you do,' she whispered, 'make it so that I am at peace.

Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.

They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life.

He soon felt that the fulfillment of his desires gave him only one grain of the mountain of happiness he had expected. This fulfillment showed him the eternal error men make in imagining that their happiness depends on the realization of their desires.

I'm like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he's cold, and his clothes are torn, and he's ashamed, but he's not unhappy.