Quotes About Contentment

Now, I call this nice. I got my daughter, my granddaughter, and my great-grandson, all in the same room. What more could a man ask of life?" He took a Welsh cake.

Peace was all a human being ought to ask for, it seemed to her.

el hecho de sentirte amada y adorada; de saber que hay una persona en este mundo que siempre estará a tu lado; de irte a la cama cada noche con alguien fuerte y tierno que quiere poseerte… eso es la felicidad para mí.

Aveva desiderato eccitazioni, città, musica, gente, idee. Ora il desiderio di quelle cose l'aveva abbandonata, e non riusciva a comprendere come le avesse tanto agognate. Le sembrò che la pace fosse tutto quello che un essere umano avrebbe dovuto chiedere.

Non parlare mai di quanto costi alcunché. Rimani calma e imperturbabile qualunque cosa accada. Ricorda che la campagna è preferibile alla città, l'ozio al lavoro, il vecchio al nuovo, e il rango è più importante del denaro. Devi sapere un po' di tutto, ma non essere davvero esperta in nulla.

He did not look down at his book. He was happy with his thoughts. They were often enough for him, nowadays. His mind was like a house he had spent his life furnishing.

The best of all possible cages.' Ben stepped back to regard the job with a sad smile. 'What more can one ask?

We] were just leaning back to get the feel of the day, swimming in that kind of tasty drowsiness that comes over you after a day of going hard at something you enjoy doing--half sunburned and half drunk and keeping awake only because you wanted to savor the taste as long as you could.

I noticed vaguely that I was getting so's I could see some good in the life around me.

swimming in that kind of tasty drowsiness that comes over you after a day of going hard at something you enjoy doing-half sunburned and half drunk and keeping awake only because you wanted to savor the taste as long as you could

We'd just shared the last beer and slung the empty can out the window at a stop sign and were just leaning back to get the feel of the day, swimming in that kind of tasty drowsiness that comes over you after a day of going hard at something you enjoy doing—half sunburned and half drunk and keeping awake only because you wanted to savor the taste as long as you could.

it is all exactly as it should be, when the robin sings on a glorious morning, and rain drops beat on the temple roof.

Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9% of everything you think, And everything you do, Is for your self, And there isn't one.

Lighten up, just enjoy life, smile more, laugh more, and don't get so worked up about things.

It is not life and wealth and power that enslave men, but the cleaving to life and wealth and power.

To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power.

May the things of this world so lose their power over us that we do not in the slightest wish to be 'worldly'; nay, we even delight in not remaining 'in the world.'

All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power.

Some people are foolish enough to imagine that wealth and power and fame satisfy our hearts: but they never do, unless they are used to create and distribute happiness in the world.

In these words lies all his power: He chose the path along which he is walking and so has no complaints.

I have had wealth, rank and power, but, if these were all I had, how wretched I should be.

Why should I be honored? Don't I have enough attention, comfort and power already?

Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.

What we enjoy, not what we possess, is ours, and in labouring for the possession of many things, we lose the power to enjoy the best.