Quotes About Contentment

Just lately I have been happier than I ever had the right to expect, and as one goes around the world one sees that happiness is hard to come by and seldom lasts for long.

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 was what you wanted.

Yet she [Jane Porter] asks little enough: a quiet life, peace, and if not active happiness, that resignation which after the hot days of youth are over, passes for contentment.

My happiness is marred only by my failure to attain it.

How dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.

Every life has death and every light has shadow. Be content to stand in the light and let the shadow fall where it will.

I smiled, knowing that Elizabeth, even in the worst of her humours, was far better suited to my own disposition. She would scold me, quarrel with me, torment me, tease me and laugh at me as often as may be. I was the happiest man in the world.

You do best at what you enjoy doing most. It's how you feel about yourself that counts most.

Anyway, everybody gets something, and nobody gets everything, and that's the way it is.

You had better make up your mind to accept what you cannot alter. You can live a beautiful life in the midst of your present circumstances.

As to what may befall us outwardly, in this confused state of things, shall we not trust our tender Father, and rest satisfied in His will? Shall anything hurt us? Can tribulation, distress, persecution, famine, nakedness, peril, or sword, come between the love of the Father to the child, or the child's rest, content, and delight in His love? And doth not the love, the rest, the peace, the joy felt, swallow up all the bitterness and sorrow of the outward condition? I. PENINGTON.

I love best to have each thing in its season, doing without it at all other times. I have never got over my surprise that I should have been born into the most estimable place in all the world, and in the very nick of time too. H. D. THOREAU. July

A face is too slight a foundation for happiness.

Prudent people are very happy 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my day of Death the Humour of saying what I think.

You can be pleased with nothing when you are not pleased with yourself.

Considering what short lived, weak animals men are, is there any study so beneficial as the study of present pleasure?

And yet you are all that you have, so you must be enough. There is no other way.

We deserve more. Vastly more. Sufficiency, plenty, abundance. Not the denial of body that is no more than a metaphor for our denial of self.

You want, you want, you want; when you're so lucky to have, to have, to have.

We humans need purpose in our lives. Look for happiness and it's hard to find. Find purpose and happiness is usually it's side kick, humming alongside.

When my mathematician husband is bored at parties, he sits quietly in a corner and does equations in his head. Only I know that he is no longer in the room. I can tell by his eyes and the contented look on his face.

When things are looking up, there's no point in looking elsewhere" -Agatha Swanburne

Agatha Swanburne - "Peas first, biscuits last, make for a happy meal.

Cassiopeia, the youngest, had taken a Giddy-Yap, Rainbow! book from the shelf to look at the pictures and had promptly fallen asleep in the rocking chair. Now she was sweetly snoring, the book nestled beneath her chin.