Quotes About Contentment

We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.

Years ago, I thought old age would be dreadful because I should not be able to do things I would want to do. Now I find there is nothing I want to do after all.

Recognize your limitations and rejoice in them!

When his dream proved to be more than he could handle, he didn't become discouraged. He simply recognized his limitations and decided to live happily within them.

O, beauty aren't you enough?

A woman who dreams of a good home with a man who holds for her only a poor love is putting a $50 saddle on a $20 horse. She'd be far better off single than riding with him.

Home at last, and my little ranch house looks mighty plain, but it is home to me and I am glad to see it.

My life is a tree and I can stay in one place and spread out in all directions, and I can do more learning shading this brood of mine than if I was all alone. I declare, it is like some other part of me made up some rules about happiness and I just went along with them without thinking. My heart is lightened so much that I am amazed at how sad I felt for so long.

A woman who dreams of a good home with a man who holds for her only a poor love is putting a fifty-dollar saddle on a twenty-dollar horse. She'd be far better off single than riding with him.

I used to complain to myself that life was so boring, that there was too much laundry to do, too many noses to wipe. Now there are not enough noses to wipe.

What a pure blessing it was to have a bath in a tub alone in a room where all you had to do was pump the water, not tote buckets. Then all you had to do was pull out the cork, not tote more buckets to the back porch--that kind of thing is easy to take lightly until you don't have it.

Liza, Liza, no hay nada seguro, pero… yo estoy todo lo segura que puede estar una persona. Quiero abrazarte siempre, quiero estar contigo para siempre, quiero… Quiero incluso que algún día seamos una pareja de viejecitas ya sin pasión ni nada. Que nos sentemos en mecedoras y nos riamos de lo pegajosas que éramos de jóvenes, al sol en algún porche…

En alguna parte tiene que haber algún sitio donde se esté bien. Tiene que haberlo.

Y supe que querría hacer eso eternamente: estar de pie en cocinas mientras observaba a Annie alimentar gatos. En cocinas que fueran nuestras, con gatos que fueran nuestros

The first day, I stood in the kitchen leaning against the counter watching Annie feed the cats, and I knew I wanted to be able to do that forever: stand in kitchens watching Annie feed cats. Our kitchens. Our cats.

I am happy, I tried to tell him with my eyes. I'm happy with Annie; she and my work are all I'll ever need; she's happy, too-we both were till this happened...

The best things in life really are free. So, how many kittens do you want?

It was never about winning medals or being famous.

I've heard it said this way: "You'll never know that Christ is all you need, until He's all you have. And when He's all you have, you'll find out that He truly is all you need." So let's keep singing those songs, reminding ourselves and others that His grace really is enough and that all our hope truly is found in Christ alone.

High" net worth is a feeling of wholeness. In other words, I don't just want you to have more money, I want you to be free to create the life that makes you happy—whatever that means to you.

Take what comes and live without complaint. What will be, will be. Life is woman's gift; death is God's.'

When man is no longer his own master, custodian of his own silly vanities and childish contentments he's nothing at all—being in the first place only an agent of a very experimental stage of organic free will

Sun, silence, and happiness.

My dear Lady Kroesig, I have only read one book in my life, and that is 'White Fang.' It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.