Quotes About Contentment

Bloom Where You're Planted

Happiness must be grown in one's own garden.

Life is just a chair of bowlies

To be happy: Don't do whatever you like; Like whatever you do.

Bloom Where You're Planted". ? Mary Engelbreit

Bloom where you are planted

Things are always less important once you're assured of having them.

What is it we desire? pleasure, happiness. What! the pleasure of an instant, only; or that which is more solid and permanent?

I often think how unadventurous my life must seem from the outside, though I do like my job.

As long as Luciano and Arianna were together, he felt that all was right with the world.

If you could live anywhere in the world where would you live " "Right here " Enzo replies. "In your arms.

Small pleasures are the best because they're everywhere. Anyone who needs grand spectacles is destined to be disappointed much of the time.

For me, everything's too much and nothing's enough.

I want fame more than I can tell. But more than I want fame I want happiness.

If it please the Devil, one day I may have happiness. That will be all-sufficient. I shall then analyze no more. I shall be a different being. But meanwhile I shall eat.

Fame may pass over my head; money may escape me; my one friend may fail me; every hope may fold its tent and steal away; Happiness may remain a sealed book; every remnant of human ties may vanish; I may find myself an outcast; good things held out to me may suddenly be withdrawn; the stars may go out, one by one; the sun may go dark; yet still I may hold upright my head, if I have but my steak—and my onions.

Luxuries unfit us for returning to hardships easily endured before.

What do you most wish for, Izzy?" "Herbs and salads, and fish straight from the river. A man needs no more than such pleasures.

We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy. I spent a great deal of time in my younger years just writing and reading, walking around the woods in Ohio, where I grew up.

What can we do but keep on breathing in and out, modest and willing, and in our places?

I very much wished not to be noticed, and to be left alone, and I sort of succeeded.

Sometimes I need only to stand wherever I am to be blessed.

Hephaistion had known for many ages that if a god should offer him one gift in all his lifetime, he would choose this. Joy hit him like a lightning-bolt.

It can be good to be given what you want; it can be better, in the end, never to have it proved to you that this is what you wanted