Quotes About Contentment

If you are content to be simply yourself and do not compare or compete, everyone will respect you

This was a lucky recollection — it saved her from something very like regret.

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.

If Louisa Musgrove would be beautiful and happy in her November of life, she will cherish all her present powers of mind.

When I am in the country, he replied, I never wish to leave it; and when I am in town it is pretty much the same. They have each their advantages, and I can be equally happy in either.

Cuán a menudo destruimos la felicidad preparándola, preparándola estúpidamente

Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone.

It is not my way to bother my brains with what does not concern me. My notion of things is simple enough. Let me only have the girl I like, say I, with a comfortable house over my head, and what care I for all the rest? Fortune is nothing. I am sure of a good income of my own; and if she had not a penny, why, so much the better.

GândeÅŸte-te la trecut numai în m?sura în care amintirea lui îÅ£i aduce bucurie.

Bueno, alguna vez fui joven, pero nunca fui muy guapa... mala suerte para mí. No obstante, me conseguí un muy buen esposo, y vaya a saber usted si la mayor de las bellezas puede hacer más que eso.

Every thing was safe enough and she smiled over the many anxious feelings she had wasted on the subject.

Yra labai nedaug žmoni?, kuriuos aš tikrai myliu, ir dar mažiau toki?, kuriuos gerbiu. Kuo ilgiau aš stebiu pasaul?, tuo mažiau esu juo patenkinta.

EMMA WOODHOUSE, bella, inteligente y rica, con una familia acomodada y un buen carácter, parecía reunir en su persona los mejores dones de la existencia; y había vivido cerca de veintiún años sin que casi nada la afligiera o la enojase.

If I can but see one of my daughters happily settled at Netherfield," said Mrs. Bennet to her husband, "and all the others equally well married, I shall have nothing to wish for.

Nobody minds having what is too good for them.

Banuiesc ca nu este indispensabil pentru fericirea mea. Cu atat mai bine. Cu siguranta nu ma voi convinge sa simt mai mult decat simt acum. Sunt suficient de indragostita. Mi-ar parea rau sa fiu mai indragostita de atat.

Jane met her with a smile of such sweet complacency, a glow of such happy expression, as sufficiently marked how well she was satisfied with the occurrences of the evening. Elizabeth instantly read her feelings, and at that moment solicitude for Wickham, resentment against his enemies, and everything else, gave way before the hope of Jane's being in the fairest way for happiness.

All his wishes centred in domestic comfort and the quiet of private life.

I don't need Mr. Perfect...I already have you.

The key to happiness is not getting what you want but wanting what you get

All those years of beauty, of a wonderful figure, and all I could think was that I was never pretty enough, never slim enough, never quite good enough. What I would give to have those years back, to appreciate them more, to appreciate the life I had while I was living it.

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. —MELODY BEATTIE

I was built for comfort, not for speed

I say to you what I always say when things cannot be altered: count your blessingss.