Quotes About Contentment

I like you very much. Just as you are.

It is proved by surveys that happiness does not come from love, wealth, or power but the pursuit of attainable goals.

When someone loves you it's like having a blanket all round your heart...

money,if it does not bring you happiness,it will atleast help you be miserable in comfort

Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.

The thing about longing is this: It is easy to feel equal to wanting. It is rare to feel equal to having.

It is not as though she's greedy for happiness, but she wishes that she'd been able to recognize it completely when she had it.

True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I am in, therein to be content.

Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content

Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within

Christian could not help smiling,

comfort in the blithe superiority that is the refuge of the small.

There could be no regret or mourning in her. No past or future. She lived in the present only, and that was my refuge.

I can't help but think of a line written by the poet Marianne Moore: The cure for loneliness is solitude.

There were days when he touched the tip of her nose and it was enough, a miracle of plenty.

She doesn't want to see anyone. She's happy like that, I think. Always relieved at the end of a visit.

I think it's swell that there are people you don't have to worry about when you don't see them for a long time, you don't have to wonder what they do, how they're getting along with themselves. You just know that they're all right, and probably doing something they like.

It was much more difficult to be alarmed by the events of a day that was almost over.

When would I learn the secret of happy, contented teamwork? Why did I always want to be the last link? If I would love the Lord with all my mind, I had to give Him all that I thought I knew or could do, and be willing for Him to place me anywhere within the team to do any job He chose for me. Only then would I exprience true peace of mind.

Happiness is the things you possess divided by the things you expect.

simple life maths: Fewer new shiny things = fewer hours overtime = happier life. So

Danes don't believe that buying more stuff brings you happiness,' Christian told me. 'A bigger car just brings you a bigger tax bill in Denmark. And a bigger house just takes longer to clean.' In an approximation of the late, great Notorious B.I.G.'s profound precept, greater wealth means additional anxieties, or in Danish, according to my new favourite app, Google Translate, the somewhat less catchy 'mere penge, mere problemer'.