Quotes About Contentment

Success is just being happy. And I try so many different things. I do a lot of different things. Because I think God has helped me to love myself. I know who God is, and I love God.

Hunger is not an object.

It is best to work, at whatever you have a talent for doing, without turning your greedy thought toward what some other man possesses, but take care of your own livelihood, as I advise you.

We have all the time in the world. We once complained about being over-scheduled; now we're thrilled to bits if there's something to jot down other than a doctor's appointment.

It is not written that great men shall be happy men.

Call no man happy. Call no man happy until he has gone down to his grave in peace.

I found an easier way to be.

Fishing in a bucket. The total hopelessness of the activity was very soothing. It was the perfect sport. Without the emotional stresses of success and failure, she was entirely free to enjoy the pleasures of the moment... It was a good hobby, and cheap, and if more people did it more often

The more flesh, the more worms. The more possessions, the more worry.

She reported that when she'd told her doctor she was losing it, he said that she'd likely had too much to begin with.

Never yet has the blind god, Wealth, come to my house and said 'Hipponax, I'm giving you thirty silver minas and much more.' No, he's far too tight.

But some people are born lucky. They lead happy lives without even trying. Ridiculous, isn't it?

Enjoying life is important to everyone.

Sometimes we develop grand concepts of what happiness might look like for us, but if we pay attention, we can see that there are little symbols of happiness in every breath that we take.

The house of the childless is empty; and so is the heart of him that hath no wife.

Jag har gråa dagar och svarta stunder. Jag är inte lycklig. Dock känner jag ingen som jag ville byta med; mitt hjärta krymper ihop vid föreställningen att jag kunde vara den eller den bland mina bekanta. Nej, jag ville inte vara någon annan. ... Jag tycker inte särdeles mycket om mig själf, hvarken skalet eller innanmätet. Men jag ville inte vara någon annan.

Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.

Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Be contented when you have got all you want.

If curiosity killed the cat, it was satisfaction that brought it back.

I need to stop fantasizing about running away to some other life and start figuring out the one I have.

I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy.

We all want stupid things. That doesn't mean we should have them.

I roll my eyes, and he gives me a quick grin. And my heart hurts a little because we are all together and safe, and it wasn't something I'd known how to want. And Cardan looks a little shy in the face of all this happiness