Quotes About Contentment

As many suffer from too much as too little. A fat body makes a lean mind.

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.

Large natures have usually large desires, and only the small are satisfied with the small.

Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.

Si on veut rester content il ne faut pas voir le monde.

I wasn't one to go out and buy a new car and stereo system and expensive clothes. My mom helped keep me grounded.

I did love him. But I did not love him like I loved Dutchy: beyond reason. Maybe you only get one of those in a lifetime, I don't know. But it was all right. It was enough.

cuando dice que no pasa nada, lo que quiere decir es que sabe que puede sobrevivir con lo mínimo.

She says she can't believe she raised a child who traveled all over the world but has been content ever since to let the world come to her.

If I am honest...I will say that I simply need a warm, dry place to live. I want enough food to eat, clothes, and shoes that will protect me from the cold. I want calmness and order. More than anything, I want to feel safe in my bed.

She stayed as quiet as she could. This, she found, was the trick: you didn't have to react to each little thing. You could just exist. Let your mind simmer over a low fire.

for the first time since the fire, my worries are gone. I feel a joy so strong it's almost painful—a knife's edge of joy.

It's all part of Dina's unwavering message: Be grateful. Dress like a normal person. Don't have opinions. Eat the food that's put in front of you. Molly

Sometimes you don't look for perfect. Sometimes enough is the most you can hope for.

Maybe all of us could live several lives, giving some things up and gaining others, assembling different versions of contentment.

Pushing the hair back from my face and tracing the line of my jaw with his finger, he says, "With you I'd be happy anywhere.

To play someone who is who they are because of the happiness and contentedness that they've known in their life is interesting because of sort of how banal it is.

I could easily exist on less money, but I like the way I live now.

Good folk, I have no coin, To take were to purloin: I have no copper in my purse, I have no silver either, And all my gold is on the furze That shakes in windy weather Above the rusy heather.

Beautiful, delightful, noble, memorable, as is the world, I yet am well content in my shady crevice.

Song" Two doves upon the selfsame branch, Two lilies on a single stem, Two butterflies upon one flower: Oh happy they who look on them. Who look upon them hand in hand Flushed in the rosy summer light; Who look upon them hand in hand And never give a thought to night.

I'm a nice, happily married wife and mom and I live in Connecticut.

what truly makes us happy is letting go of our fantasies about the future and instead engaging in the journey, in the process, and in the present moment.

But don't go shopping. That is one thing that many of us do for fun that won't result in lasting happiness. Materialistic people are more likely to be depressed or anxious and have low self-esteem. The more we seek happiness in material things, the less likely we are to find it.