Quotes About Contentment

A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.

The best feelings are those that have no words to describe them....

Being happy with someone doesn't mean that everything about them is perfect, they can't be. It means that we know no one is perfect including ourselves so we look beyond someones imperfections and concentrate on their perfections and our happiest shines thru. As long as one's HEART is in the right place and is perfect for your liking then everything else that is near perfect or perfect about them is a bonus and everything else....secondary, they don't matter.

Who, being loved, is poor?

For I don't care too much for money, For money can't buy me love.

Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun.

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest

He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man.

Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.

In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.

Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a lifetime, a garden.

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.

You are quaffing drink from a hundred fountains: whenever any of these hundred yields less, your pleasure is diminished. But when the sublime fountain gushes from within you, no longer need you steal from the other fountains.

Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by someone I do not know. I admire lolling on a lawn by a water-lilied pond to eat white currants and see goldfish: and go to the fair in the evening if I'm good. There is not hope for that --one is sure to get into some mess before evening.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Only cat lovers know the luxury of fur-coated, musical hot water bottles that never go cold.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

I adore him. I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Let no one who loves be called unhappy Even love unreturned has its rainbow.