Quotes About Contentment

Money can't buy love.

Arrive-t-il un moment de la vie où le bonheur est passé, où l'on n'attend plus rien ? Est-ce cela que vieillir ? Lorsque aujourd'hui ne parle que d'hier, quand le présent n'est plus qu'un trait de nostalgie que l'on cache pudiquement par des éclats de rire ?

Não é verdade que a felicidade é aquilo que procuramos sem nunca sermos capazes de a reconhecer?

Finalement, le bonheur, n'est-ce pas ce après quoi nous courons tous sans être vraiment capable de le reconnaître ?

Le bonheur se trouve souvent plus près de nous qu'on ne l'imagine.

Je vais te dire pourquoi je suis "serein", comme tu dis. Parce que l'on ne peut pas tout vivre, alors l'important est de vivre l'essentiel et chacun de nous a "son essentiel".

Solo me quedaba llenar mi cabeza de recuerdos que me alimentaran los meses siguientes, acumular una reserva de momentos felices para el otoño.

C'est moche d'avoir à guetter un signe de quelqu'un pour se sentir heureux.

C'est quand on a tout donné, quand on ne tient plus à rien qu'on possède tout.

Voor sommige mensen is geluk zoiets ongewoons, zo zeldzaam, nieuw of vreemd, dat ze er nooit van kunnen genieten als ze gelukkig zijn, maar altijd pas achteraf, als het besef komt dat ze toen, op dit of dat moment, gelukkig waren.

Warum es den Menschen so schwer fällt, glücklich zu sein? Weil sie die Vergangenheit besser sehen als sie war, die Gegenwart schlechter als sie ist und die Zukunft rosiger als sie sein wird.

when the heartstrings, which contentment has silenced, like a harp laid by, yearn to be plucked and sounded again by some hand, however rough, even if it should break them;

I was not unhappy, except one day at a time.

my house contains every useless thing in the world. it lacks only the one essential, a piece of sky like this one...

For the possession of what we love is an even greater joy than love itself.

How often have I watched, and longed to imitate when I should be free to live as I chose, a rower who had slipped his oars and lay flat on his back in the bottom of the boat, letting it drift with the current, seeing nothing but the sky gliding slowly by above him, his face aglow with a foretaste of happiness and peace!

Men may thus have several sorts of pleasures. The true pleasure is that for which they give up another.

There can be no peace of mind in love, since what one has obtained is never anything but a new starting point for further desires. in a chapter called Desire and Despair

Well, how could a reader notice that? There may be something lacking there I admit. But heavens above, they ought to count themselves lucky! It's full enough of good things as it is, far more than they usually get.

He had so long since ceased to direct his life toward any ideal goal, and had confined himself to the pursuit of quotidian satisfactions, that he had come to believe, though without ever formally stating his belief even to himself that he would remain all his life in that condition, which only death could alter.

Pois a posse do que se ama é uma alegria ainda maior do que o amor.

that profit which good things bestowed on us by teaching to seek pleasure elsewhere than in the barren satisfaction of worldly wealth.

Whenever she saw in others an advantage, however trivial, which she herself lacked, she would persuade herself that it was no advantage at all, but a drawback, and would pity so as not to have to envy them. "I

there was no need for him to hasten towards the attainment of a happiness already captured and held in a safe place, which would not escape his grasp again.