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Quotes About Contentment

Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.
~ Booth Tarkington
The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.
~ Randall Jarrell
Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
~ Seneca
Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.
~ Ausonius
Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
~ Confucius
Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?
~ Walt Whitman
One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.
~ William Feather
Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to.
~ Joe Gores
A happy family is but an earlier heaven
~ George Bernard Shaw
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
~ Mark Twain
I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.
~ Nancy Mitford
She's got a great looking husband, a little boy and all the money in the world. She hasn't got the looks, but you can't have everything.
~ Jordan
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
~ Will Rogers
I enjoy life. I think I'll enjoy death even more.
~ Cat Stevens
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
~ Ingrid Bergman
Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.
~ Jean Jacques Rousseau
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
~ Rita Mae Brown
Happiness is a very small desk and a very big wastebasket.
~ Robert Orben
In Hollywood, if you don't have happiness you send out for it.
~ Rex Reed
Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
~ Unknown
Whenever I miss you. I just close my eyes and I see your smiling face and half of my problems automatically get solved.
~ Unknown
We will never be happy until we make God the source of our fulfillment and the answer to our longings. He is the only one who should have power over our souls.
~ Stormie Omartian
Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come...The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.
~ Audrey Hepburn
Women have no wilderness in them. They are provident instead content in the tight hot cell of their hearts. To eat dusty bread.
~ Louise Bogan