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Quotes About Contentment

The inhabitants of the Cape generally do not complain of their "soil," but will tell you that it is good enough for them to dry their fish on.
~ Henry David Thoreau
From now on walking is my beer and feeling good is my hangover.
~ Homer
Good enough is good enough. We're not supposed to be perfect. We're supposed to be complete.
~ Jane Fonda
I just try to feel good in my own skin as much as I can.
~ Jennifer Love Hewitt
Wouldst thou ever roam abroad? See, what is good lies by thy side. Only learn to catch happiness, for happiness is ever by you.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I am quite content to come home and go to Farming, be a select Man, and owe no Man any Thing but good Will. There I can get a little health and teach my Boys to be Lawyers.
~ John Adams
I'm doing what I like, why wouldn't I be happy? So what if it's not perfect, I don't believe in perfection. Maybe happy's as good as it gets.
~ John Dunning
Nothing really mattered that much, not the good things and not the bad ones. We were in the business of mutual amusement, and we were reasonably prosperous.
~ John Green
I never could be good when I was not happy.
~ Julia Ward Howe
Don't a fellow feel good after he gets out of a store where he nearly bought something.
~ Kin Hubbard
I cannot count the good people I know who to my mind would be even better if they bent their spirits to the study of their own hungers.
~ M. F. K. Fisher
I've been very lucky and I have a happy old age with good family and friends still around.
~ Maeve Binchy
I don't look my best when I wake up! But I do feel beautiful when I'm tired and happy and I've had a good laugh and a glass of champagne.
~ Maya Rudolph
Bed is a good friend; book is a good friend; night is a good friend. Try to bring them all together.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
I'd rather have a small part in a good film with good people than play the lead in something I don't really care for.
~ Michael Biehn
The things I care about are the most pedestrian things in the world. I care about good ice cream and being a good dad and a decent husband.
~ Michael Ian Black
Abundance, even of good things, prevents them from being valued
~ Miguel de Cervantes
For me, I would rather read a good book, from a contented author. I don't really care what it takes to produce that.
~ Neil Gaiman
If you get up every morning and smile, it's a good place to be.
~ Nicki Chapman
To be good is to be in harmony with one's self.
~ Oscar Wilde
When we touch the foundation of the reality of the good news of God, we will never bother Him anymore with little personal complaints.
~ Oswald Chambers
There is no need of any competition with anybody. U R yourself, and as U R, U R perfectly good. Accept urself
~ Rajneesh
Which is better--feeling good or getting good?
~ Robert Genn
The good thing about having a kid is you don't think about that as much. Like when I turned 30, for instance, that was much more momentous. Forty is particularly great for a woman. It's a big thing.
~ Rose Byrne