Quotes About Contentment

I have had my eyes opened to a different side to me. I'm a much happier person. There was always this Jekyll and Hyde thing with me.

Not everything has to be a money-making operation. You do things sometimes because it makes you feel good.

Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.

You know I have loved him always. But we are very poor. Who, being loved, is poor? Oh, no one. I hate my riches. They are a burden...

Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast.

It is only when one has lost all things, that one knows that one possesses it

LORD ILLINGWORTH. As George Harford I had everything I wanted. Now I have merely everything that other people want, which isn't nearly so pleasant.

Tea is the only simple pleasure left to us.

Con libertad, libros, flores y la luna, ¿quién no puede ser feliz?

I don't want to earn a living, I want to live.

I believe I am to have enough to live on for about eighteen months at any rate, so that, if I may not write beautiful books, I may at least read beautiful books, and what joy can be greater?

It is pure unadulterated country life. They get up early because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they have so little to think about.

I have never searched for happiness. Who wants happiness? I have searched for pleasure.

Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast.

To live in happiness, you must know some unhappiness in life.

What does money matter? Love is more than money.

The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat. They live as we all should live—undisturbed, indifferent, and without disquiet. They neither bring ruin upon others, nor ever receive it from alien hands.

One is not always happy when one is good; but one is always good when one is happy.

Yo adoro los placeres sencillos. Son el último refugio de los hombres complicados.

Una grande passion es el privilegio de quienes no tienen nada que hacer.

Un homme peut être heureux avec n'importe quelle femme, à condition de ne pas l'aimer.

If you wish me to never look at your picture again, I am content. I have always you to look at. If you wish the best work I have ever done to be hidden from the world, I am satisfied. Your friendship is dearer to me than any fame or reputation.

Position and wealth are not everything.

To be good is to be in harmony with one's self