Quotes About Contentment

My wife adores me, I love my family, why would I want to marry anyone else?

After the pain, the pleasure.

Money isn't enough. Happiness takes more than a padded bank account.

Settle for what you can get, but first ask for the World.

Happiness isn't a thing. You can't go out and get it like a cup of tea. It's the way you feel about things.

Settle for what you can get, but first ask for the World. - Ka'a Ort'o, Gnomic Utterances, Civ

She read a great deal, and very soon realized how little chance she had of an interesting future. It was a disappointment to her, but she was still happy enough

You're still here, he said. Is something the matter? Sophie sniffed. I'm old, she began. But it was just as the Witch had said and the fire demon had guessed. Michael said cheerfully, Well, it comes to us all in time. Would you like some breakfast?

As an old woman, she did not mind what she did or said. She found that a great relief.

She was so happy that she had gone quiet all over. She felt like someone listening to great chords of music that were not to be interrupted by speaking. (p. 152)

She felt happy these days, yet there was always an undercurrent of sadness just below the surface

She felt happy these days, yet there was always an undercurrent of sadness just below the surface. Sometimes she would feel it there and not even know its source.

And slept peacefully.

Done, he said, and laughed.

Our clients' faces, with the customary outward paleness and inner glow of the book lover.

She was a woman who let life happen to her without troubling her mind about things more than was necessary.

So they became friends, the way old married couples often do, and enjoyed the tender loyalty that awaits the lucky on the other side of passion, without ever living the passion itself.

That he had been lucky in life and had much to be thankful for. That the woman waiting for him at home in bed was a kind and loving soul. And more: his knees didn't hurt as much as usual, and there was an expansiveness in his chest that reminded him of how it had been to be young.

Toma de la vida todo lo que te dé, sea lo que sea, siempre que te interese y te pueda dar cierto placer.

But if we don't prefer things, then we increase our chances to be content.

I wonder if there isn't a catch about having plenty of money? Does it eventually take the pleasure out of things?

Oh, comfortable cocoa!

surely I could give him--a sort of contentment... That isn't enough to give. Not for the giver.

She will want things to stay just as they are. She will never have the fun of hoping something wonderful and exiting may be just around the corner.