Quotes About Contentment

I would be married, but I'd have no wife,I would be married to a single life.

For the intellectual, material comforts are relatively unimportant.

John MacArthur writes: "[Andrew] did not seek to be the center of attention. He did not seem to resent those who labored in the limelight. He was evidently pleased to do what he could with the gifts and calling God had bestowed on him, and he allowed the others to do likewise."2

Keynes had the happiest of marriages, and the best of wives for him, but marital contentment narrowed his outlook and temper.77

Die glücklichsten Menschen der Welt haben keine geteerten Straßen.

Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.

Happiness has a bad rap. People say it shouldn't be your goal in life. Oh, yes it should.

Half the confusion in the world comes from not knowing how little we need.

A happy man has no past, while an unhappy man has nothing else.

If I could have married my wife and been a sports writer for the past 30 years, I wouldn't be sitting here - but I don't think I'd be sitting someplace where I was sorry to be sitting.

Money will buy you a fine dog, but only love can make it wag its tail.

A tranquil conscience invites freedom from anguish, sorrow, guilt, shame, and self-condemnation. It provides a foundation for happiness. It is a condition of immense worth.

It has pleased and interested me to see how I could get along under difficult circumstances and with so much discomfort but as I say I was not sent out here to improve my temper or my health or to make me more content with my good things in the East.

Do not store up for yourselves earthly possessions, which moths and rust can destroy, and robbers can steal. Rather, store up heavenly treasures which cannot be destroyed or stolen. For wherever your heart is, there is your treasure as well.

Those whose happiness is within, whose peace is within, whose light is within—that person becomes free.

Happiness in life is the result of accepting everything just the way it is. Serenity is achieved when one no longer wishes for "something else.

Continuous reoptimization (sometimes dignified by the name "flexibility") is the real enemy of happiness, as can be observed among young people who spend the day reorganizing their evening arrangements each time a better opportunity arises.

Happy we were the, for we had a good house, and good food and good work.

Oh there is lovely to feel a book, a good book, firm in the hand, for its fatness holds rich promise, and you are hot inside to think of good hours to come.

Happy we were then, for we had a good house, and good food, and good work.

It do seem to me that the life of man is merely a pattern scrawled on Time, with little thought, little care, and no sense of design. Why is it, I wonder, that people suffer, when there is so little need, when an effort of will and some hard work would bring them from their misery into peace and contentment.

So I went to bed, full, happy, and caring nothing for all the hurt of all the englished Welshmen that ever festered upon a proud land

A good friend of mine is a cup of tea indeed.

I went to bed, full, happy, and caring nothing for all the hurt of all the Englished Welshmen that ever festered upon a proud land.