Quotes About Contentment

Contentment and happiness are contagious, I think.

I think I'm basically one and the same person I was in the earlier part of my life--perhaps calmer, more accepting and certainly happier.

A conscience at ease is a pillow on which we may sleep soundly even in a dungeon.

all sein Hab und Gut befand. Er war aber fröhlich und guter Dinge, und hatte an der schönen, weißen Winterlandschaft umher und an den bereiften Hecken und Gesträuchen am Wege seine herzliche Freude. Indes

I'm going to spend time and energy thinking and acting in a way that will increase my chances of feeling happy as often as possible. It's not about being happy just like that, here and now, whistling up happiness like a dog. But I can pave the way for happiness. I can open my eyes and my mind, in the same way that I make myself present when I'm walking in a forest, instead of remaining wrapped in my worries about yesterday and tomorrow.

If the achievement of so much in life could not make one happy, then why bother living?

Non è che siamo degli emarginati, è che abbiamo imparato cos'è che non ci serve.

It was that he seemed...content to live in a wholly unexplored world.

Don't worry about it,' he said, noting my frown in response to him deciding on a final setting that seemed rougher than the last. 'We're not happy until you're not happy.

It was possible to love life, without loving your life.

You can give men food and leisure and amusements and good conditions of work, and still they will remain unsatisfied. You can deny them all these things, and they will not complain so long as they feel that they have something to die for.

Life is a very beautiful dream. I'm so glad I chose not to wake up from it just yet

They who would isolate themselves from the world and its duties must cease to know and to care, as well as to act, and be content to let things take their course. This in effect they cannot do; this they never do; and the only result is a struggle in which they neither live nor die — neither live as they wish, in the past, nor do their duty in the working world.

He revealed his own character when he wrote, "I seem to be here to care more for others than for myself, and am well content with this destiny.

But all the money in the world cannot make you happy either, so there has to be a balance.

Success is to be Happy in Life.

All I really want is enough to live on, a little house in the country... and a tree in the garden with seven of my enemies hanging in it.

If you are lucky enough to find somewhere you want to be, then you should be there.

I thought: Yes, to live the life of the mind is the truest form of happiness.

Go back to your house then, and see what happiness you find there.' 'It has nothing to do with happiness.' 'It is true that marriage seems often to have little to do with happiness. But who am I to judge? I have never been married.

Face it: you're never going to get carded again, so quit asking bouncers if they want to see your ID. Quit going places where they have bouncers.

You don't have to chase every bird that you see.

Accept it: you're too old to drink more than one drink and sleep through the night. Face it: you're never going to get carded again, so quit asking bouncers if they want to see your ID. Quit going places where they have bouncers.

All my life, I'd thought of having kids with the seriousness that I'd thought of taking a ceramics class. When I finally took one and came home with three beautifully glazed but warped bowls, my husband said: "You're not going to turn into a lady who makes pots, are you?" I was not. I kept the bowls and display them proudly—one holds fruit, one batteries, one loose change—but I had no interest in making anything else.