Quotes About Contentment

Go and eat and drink a little more, and you will do very well.

Happiness must preclude false indulgence and physic.

You have gained a new source of enjoyment, and it is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.

Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure

I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but like everybody else, it must be in my own way.

dinero sólo puede dar felicidad allí donde no hay ninguna otra cosa que pueda darla. Más allá de un buen pasar, no puede dar real satisfacción, por lo menos en lo que se refiere al ser más íntimo.

En los buenos tiempos, nadie tenía un temperamento más alegre que el de ella o poseía en mayor grado esa optimista expectativa de felicidad que es la felicidad misma.

I do not pretend to say that I was not very much pleased with him; but while I have Udolpho to read, I feel as if nobody could make me miserable.

Strange that it would!" cried Marianne. "What have wealth or grandeur to do with happiness?" "Grandeur has but little," said Elinor, "but wealth has much to do with it.

I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness

I have often observed that resignation is never so perfect as when the blessing denied begins to lose somewhat of its value in our estimation.

I wish as well as every body else to be perfectly happy; but like every body else in my own way. Greatness will not make me so.

There is nothing like stying at home for real comfort

Give me but a little cheerful company, let me only have the company of the people I love, let me only be where I like and with whom I like, and the devil take the rest, say I.

But it was her business to be satisfied—and certainly her temper to be happy; and all was soon right again.

Think only of the past as its remembrance gives your pleasure.

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can.

I declare, there is no enjoyment like reading.

Nothing was so likely to do her good as a little quiet cheerfulness at home.

I should not mind anything at all.

I know he will make you happy, but you will make him everything.

With this answer Elizabeth was forced to be contented; but her own opinion remained the same. It was not in her nature, however, to increase her vexations by dwelling on them. She was confident of having performed her duty, and to fret over unavoidable evils, or augment them by anxiety, was no part of her disposition.

Nothing, on the contrary, could be more natural; and while able to suppose that it cost him a few struggles to relinquish her, she was ready to allow it a wise and desirable measure for both, and could very sincerely wish him happy.

it is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.