Quotes About Contentment

the aim of civilization is to translate everything into enjoyment.

All families are happy, all families are alike.

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 the world in which he can be perfectly unhappy and unfree

Thus, in spite of his solitude, or in consequence of his solitude, his life was exceedingly full.

And the slaves prided themselves on their master, saying: 'There is no better lord than ours under the sun. He feeds and clothes us well, and gives us work suited to our strength. He bears no malice, and never speaks a harsh word to any one. He is not like other masters, who treat their slaves worse than cattle: punishing them whether they deserve it or not, and never giving them a friendly word. He wishes us well, does good, and speaks kindly to us. We do not wish for a better life.

Her motherly instinct told her that there was too much of something in Natasha, and that it would prevent her from being happy.

There can be no peace for us, only misery, and the greatest happiness

in marriage the great thing was love, and that with love one would always be happy, for happiness rests only on oneself.

You are in despair, because you wish to live for your own happiness.

No man is satisfied with his fortune, but every man is satisfied with his wit.

He felt he was himself and did not want to be otherwise. He only wanted to be better than he had been before.

And as a sign that everything was now all right in the world, she opened her mouth a fraction, and after arranging her sticky lips better around her old teeth, smacked them and settled down into a state of blissful rest. Levin watched these last movements of hers closely. 'I'm just the same!' he said to himself; 'Just the same! Never mind... All is well.

But what desires can always be satisfied despite external circumstances? What are they? Love, self-sacrifice.' He

A cigar is a sort of thing, not exactly a pleasure, but the crown and outward sign of pleasure. Come, this is life! How splendid it is! This is how I should like to live!

I'm inexcusably happy. Something magical has happened to me, like a dream, when you're frightened, panic-stricken, and all of a sudden you wake up and all the horrors are no more. I have waked up. I have lived through the misery, the dread, and now for a long while past, especially since we've been here, I've been so happy!…

El fin de la civilización consiste en convertir todas las cosas en un placer.

Pierre had for the first time experienced that strange and fascinating feeling in the Slobodsky palace, when he suddenly felt that wealth and power and life, all that men build up and guard with such effort ,is only worth anything through the joy with which it can all be cast away.

Like all those who live in touch with nature and have known want, he was patient and could wait for hours, even days without growing restless or irritable

How can it be that I've never seen that lofty sky before? Oh, how happy I am to have found it at last. Yes! It's all vanity, it's all an illusion, everything except that infinite sky. There is nothing, nothing – that's all there is. But there isn't even that. There's nothing but stillness and peace. Thank God for that!

In Varenka she saw that it was only necessary to forget oneself and to love others in order to be at peace, happy, and lovely. And such a person Kitty wished to be. Having now clearly understood what was most important, Kitty was not content merely to delight in it, but immediately with her whole should devoted herself to this newly-revealed life.

I rejoice in what I have, and don't fret for what I haven't,

On the contrary one must try to make one's life as pleasant as possible. I'm alive, that's not my fault, so I must live out my live the best I can, without hurting others.

It isn't that he can't fall in love. But that he does not possess the kind of weakness that is necessary... I always envied him that, and I do even now when I am so happy.

in spite of his solitude, or in consequence of his solitude, his life was exceedingly full.