Quotes About Contentment

Many women have married primarily for money and found themselves miserable. No amount of trinkets and possessions can fill a heart

Some people are so impoverished all they have is gold.

I would not exchange my leisure hours for all the wealth in the world. -Comte De Mirabeau

Like so many American families, our families weren't asking for much. They didn't begrudge anyone else's success or care that others had much more than they did... in fact, they admired it.

El Bosque tenía todo lo que uno podía desear. Hasta entonces nunca se había dado cuenta de lo mucho que lo apreciaba.

You can collect as many rings as you like, Telamon, but you'll never have enough. I think you'll be afraid for the rest of your life! - Pirra

How do you know all these things?' He shrugged. 'It's boring being a goatherd. Nothing to do except watch goats. If I hadn't watched other creatures, I'd have gone mad.

There's a chasm between envy and desire. Envy is like wanting something that's not yours. But desire is different. Desire comes out of wanting what is yours, and still wanting it even if it's not yet there, but it's not envy.

You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.

You can't always get what you want.

Let your life be such that death cannot take away anything from you , instead; your passing away with a smile should be as fulfilling as living itself. Leave no room for regret, no scope for repentance. Live life super-sized, get MickeyMized.

Too much money is as demoralizing as too little, and there's no such thing as exactly enough.

There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we count ourselves among them.

We waste a lot of time running after people we could have caught by just standing still.

Many things can make you miserable for weeks; few can bring you a whole day of happiness.

After the chills and fever of love, how nice is the 98.6º of marriage!

God doesn't measure His bounty, but oh how we do!

We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it.

In youth we are plagued by desire; in later years, by the desire to feel desire.

If you hate your lot but wouldn't trade it, it's not your lot you hate.

Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough.

Curioso ¿por qué?... Después de todo, somos los pobres los más conformes. ¡Y qué remedio, pues!... Verdá es que con eso de la escuela los que han aprendido a ler andan influenciados de cosas imposibles. Hasta mi mujer resulta a veces triste porque dice que quisiera tener alas los domingos.

Can we ever have too much of a good thing?

Sing away sorrow, cast away care.