Quotes About Contentment

So, on the whole, it was well with them, very well; and Patrasche, meeting on the highway or in the public streets the many dogs who toiled from daybreak into nightfall, paid only with blows and curses, and loosened from the shafts with a kick to starve and freeze as best they might — Patrasche in his heart was very grateful to his fate, and thought it the fairest and the kindliest the world could hold.

Life is good, if you like that sort of thing.

Happy the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying, once and for all.

In sweet water there is a pleasure ungrudged by anyone.

Envy feeds on the living. It ceases when they are dead.

He who lives well, lives hidden.

How little you know about the age you live in if you think that honey is sweeter than cash in hand.

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

His was a life which lacked, perhaps, the sublimer emotions which raised Man to the level of the gods, but it was undeniably an extremely happy one. He never experienced the thrill of ambition fulfilled, but, on the other hand, he never knew the agony of ambition frustrated....

I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

True happiness isn't enhanced by pleasure or diminished by sadness, but exists in spite of those things.

Re: Positive reactions to non-positive events] Our feelings are the products of our thoughts. A positive thought produces a feeling of contentment or happiness, a negative one a feeling of sadness or despondency. If we have control over how we feel about it as well. This means, in turn, that we can be the makers of our own happiness ( p.16).

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

I am who Iam, I enjoy life in my own way and that is hell of a lot more than most people can say for themselves

disputing nothing is the first step through the difficult door of happiness

And so I was left with a mantra, a sort of haiku version of our relationship: I don't regret one day I spent with him, nor did I leave a moment too soon.

I once asked her if she was happy. "That depends on what I am able to get done

Solitude is the source of happiness

Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

If your mind isn't cluttered by unnecessary things, this could be the best day of your life." —

No man is worth the whole world.

My favorite food city is wherever I happen to be eating. You know what they say, love the one you're with!

I want you to know that I would be happy if the two of us spent the rest of our lives living in the cabin. It's not the size of the house that makes it a home. It's the love inside. Marrying you is the best decision I've ever made, Eric Hawke.