Quotes About Contentment

You can be grateful for what you enjoy, not longing for what you are missing.

higher income is associated with a reduced ability to enjoy the small pleasures of life.

There can be many different views of what Heaven is like, because Heaven is whatever makes each person eternally and fully happy.

I remember making a 'thank you' video when one of my videos got to 50 views!

I have always wanted to play for Aston Villa, so I am not going to sit there and think, 'I could have been there,' or whatever. The grass isn't always greener.

I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.

I don't need to move to the States; I love our little village, Ibstock.

Some of the parts of Burma, we met people who'd never, ever gone out of their village. And they were brutally poor; incredibly poor. And yet they enjoy their lives.

I stay in France. Better to be the queen of a village than a servant in a kingdom.

My life was made easy - I lived in a village, and by writing for some newspapers and magazines, had enough to live on. I was happy to be there and write.

Since the whole village was poor, we didn't realize our own poverty. I was happy.

I don't need to be vindicated, and I don't want attention.

Be happy. Don't make a Vine about, like, something not that happy.

I hope to one day co-sign a lease with another person but, well, it doesn't plague me that I have yet to do so. Put it this way: I've never had to violently tug at my own pillow at 2 A.M. to get myself to stop snoring.

We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.

I am now a turtle. Virtually everything I own is on my back and suffice it to say I am one ton lighter and therefore 2,000 pounds happier. All houses are gone.

It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.

It's obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect.

Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.