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Quotes About Contentment

The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty.
~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.
~ Unknown
I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men.
~ Coco Chanel
I've learned a lot about women. I think I've learned exactly how the fall of man occured in the Garden of Eden. Adam and Eve were in the Garden of Eden, and Adam said one day, Wow, Eve, here we are, at one with nature, at one with God, we'll never age, we'll never die, and all our dreams come true the instant that we have them. And Eve said, Yeah... it's just not enough is it?
~ Bill Hicks
It is our job to make women unhappy with what they have.
~ Unknown
I'm a simple man. All I want is enough sleep for two normal men, enough whiskey for three, and enough women for four.
~ Joel Rosenberg
The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
~ Henry Louis Mencken
The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
~ George Eliot
Women are like cars: we all want a Ferrari, sometimes want a pickup truck, and end up with a station wagon.
~ Tim Allen
When you can't have what you want, it's time to start wanting what you have.
~ Unknown
It's the most simple and smallest things in life that make you realize what true happiness is and what really matters.
~ Unknown
I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself
~ Maya Angelou
Long for happiness, because that's what life truly means, where there is no happiness, there's no peace, and without peace there's no living.
~ Unknown
Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Happiness is the longing for repetition.
~ Milan Kundera
Do you know I never ever feel bored, never ever feel lonely, because you are always in my thoughts, morning, afternoon and night.
~ Unknown
A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her
~ Oscar Wilde
A kiss is but a kiss now! and no wave of a great flood that whirls me to the sea. But, as you will! we'll sit contentedly, and eat our pot of honey on the grave.
~ George Meredith
Nothing is miserable unless you think it is so.
~ Boethius
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
~ Herman Cain
Gold, for the instant, lost its luster in his eyes, for there were countless treasures of the heart which it could never purchase.
~ Charles Dickens
Real love cannot be deceived because it wants nothing outside of itself
~ Guy Finley
If you have love in your life it can make up for a great many things you lack. If you don't have it, no matter what else there is, it's not enough
~ Ann Landers
We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.
~ Frederick Keonig