Quotes About Contentment

I was a fool", I say, because i might as well admit it. " I gave up the bird in my hand for two in the bush

If he's half as taken with you as you are with yourself, I imagine he'll be well pleased.

Legends need not concern themselves with something as small as happiness.

Desire is an odd thing. As soon as it is sated, it transmutes. If we receive the golden thread, we desire the golden needle.

Debo dejar de fantasear sobre huir hacia otra vida, y tratar de averiguar como vivir la que ya tengo. I need to stop fantasizing about running away to some other life, and start figuring out the one I have.

Everything was boring. Everything was fine.

Normal people," they'd say with a shudder. "Normal people think they're happy, but that because they're too dumb to know any different. Better to be miserable and interesting, right, kiddo?

The rich believed they were lucky, and that any fortune they didn't already have could be bought. They had so much already, disappointment became inconceivable.

In the dream, everything was convenient, everything was perfect, everything would be fine forever.

She did not need anyone else's love when she had roses.

Once I started planning purchases, the satisfaction of actually buying what I truly wanted helped tame my desires for the stupid little things I used to waste my money on.

Was it possible to do both, to contribute to the world while merely observing it? To be content in the moment, but plan for the future? Could you follow your heart without losing all common sense?

We think of our emotions as being the result of something happening to us, but happiness is a choice.

He told me I could live in a corner of the world, like I was doing now, and think I was happy, or I could live in the whole world and know where I belonged," Peter said.

There is a fullness of all things, even of sleep and of love.

He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.

Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.

Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance

And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.

Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.

La solitude est une belle chose; mais il faut quelqu'un pour vous dire que la solitude est une belle chose.

For avarice begins where poverty ends.

No one was irritable; we have never known anyone to remain unhappy while digesting a good meal. We enjoy lingering in a becalmed state, a kind of midpoint between the reverie of a thinker and the contentment of a cud-chewing animal, a state that should be termed the physical melancholy of gastronomy.

Ba?kalar?n?n mutlulu?u, art?k mutlu olamayacaklar?n sevinci olur.