Quotes About Contentment

There are two ways to get enough: one is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less. — G. K. CHESTERTON

I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.

Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.

You must be the best judge of your own happiness.

Know your own happiness.

Every moment has its pleasures and its hope.

But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea.

Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.

that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself

I do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness.

My characters shall have, after a little trouble, all that they desire.

Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.

She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy.

To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of 26 and 18 is to do pretty well

I would much rather have been merry than wise.

If you were to give me forty such men, I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness. No, no, let me shift for myself; and, perhaps, if I have very good luck, I may meet with another Mr. Collins in time.

Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing! but I have never been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall. And, without love, I am sure I should be a fool to change such a situation as mine.

I certainly will not persuade myself to feel more than I do. I am quite enough in love. I should be sorry to be more

I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness.

It would be difficult to say which had seen highest perfection in the other, or which had been the happiest: she, in receiving his declarations and proposals, or he in having them accepted.

Money is the best recipe for happiness.

she had nothing to do but to forgive herself and be happier than ever…

Completely and perfectly and incandescently happy...

All the world is good and agreeable in your eyes.