Quotes About Contentment

An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done

Those who have not more must be satisfied with what they have.

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.

You have no ambition, I well know. Your wishes are all moderate.' 'As moderate as those of the rest of the world, I believe. I wish as well as every body else to be perfectly happy, but like every body else it must be in my own way. Greatness will not make me so.

When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

How pleasant it is to spend an evening in this way! I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

Perfect happiness, even in memory, is not common.

You must be the best judge of your own happiness. If you prefer Mr. Martin to every other person; if you think him the most agreeable man you have ever been in company with, why should you hesitate?

Elinor, for shame! said Marianne, money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it. Beyond a competence, it can afford no real satisfaction, as far as mere self is concerned.

What have wealth or grandeur to do with happiness? Grandeur has but little, said Elinor, but wealth has much to do with it. Elinor, for shame! Said Marianne. Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it...

I am quite enough in love. I should be sorry to be any more

Recuerde sólo en el pasado aquello que le sea grato.

A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favor of happiness, as a very resolute character.

I do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness.  So much the better.  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.

But now you love a hyacinth. So much the better. You have gained a new source of enjoyment, and it is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.

Blessed with so many resources within myself the world was not necessary to me. I could do very well without it.

Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

Let those who want to be happy ... be firm

Qué agradable es pasar así una velada! Declaro que no hay placer como la lectura. ¡Cuánto más pronto cansa cualquier otra cosa que un libro! Cuando tenga casa propia me creeré desgraciada si no poseo una excelente biblioteca.

Lady Middleton resigned herself... Contenting herself with merely giving her husband a gentle reprimand on the subject, five or six times every day.

Elizabeth, agitated and confused, rather knew that she was happy, than felt herself to be so…

Let go of the past because its remembrance will give you pleasure.

I think we are a great deal better employed, sitting comfortably here among ourselves, and doing nothing.