Quotes About Contentment

In the place of the things I have denied myself, I have things that mean more to me than sex, fun and happiness ever could.

Young adulthood afforded me a lot of time on my own. Sometimes on a night off from work, I would park my car in a supermarket lot and just sit there, listening to tapes on my battery powered, one speaker Norelco. That sounds lonely but it was really cool, actually. It was all I needed. I pretty much do the same thing now but with slightly better playback.

don't need to be with anyone, don't want someone to travel with or talk to. This is all I need. The simplicity of it holds great appeal. I've found the right combination. Music, the note pad, coffee and being alone at night. Good to go. Doing this all over the world is as good as it gets.

I'd learned what the word 'happy' meant. It meant there was no weight in your belly, and if you asked yourself how you felt, the answer spontaneously came back: good .

Happiness is inward and not outward and so it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.

He knew that all was well, because he had done the best that he could, from day to day. He had been true to the light that had been given to him. He had looked for more. And if he had not found it, if a failure was all that came out of his life, doubtless that was the best that was possible. He had not seen the revelation of "life everlasting, incorruptible and immortal." But he knew that even if he could live his earthly life over again, it could not be otherwise than it had been.

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain.

I know it is more agreeable to walk upon carpets than to lie upon dungeon floors, I know it is pleasant to have all the comforts and luxuries of civilization; but he who cares only for these things is worth no more than a butterfly, contented and thoughtless, upon a morning flower; and who ever thought of rearing a tombstone to a last summer's butterfly?

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.

Money will buy you a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.

Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.

I had rather be a pot-bellied seed cowcumber, flung carelessly on a wood pile to ripen, than tew be an old bachelor.

When a doktor looks me square in the face and kant see no money in me, then i am happy.

It seems incredible that a man possessing so many conditions of happiness should be not only so little happy, but clearly does not see the reason why he should exist at all. It

Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past.

He had learned that, as there is no situation in the world in which a man can be happy and perfectly free, so there is no situation in which he can be perfectly unhappy and unfree.

Happiness is pleasure without regret

You've said nothing, of course, and I ask nothing," he was saying; "but you know that friendship's not what I want: that there's only one happiness in life for me, that word that you dislike so…yes, love!…

Perhaps it's because I appreciate all I have so much that I don't worry about what I haven't got.

Her maternal instinct told her Natasha had too much of something, and because of this she would not be happy