Quotes About Contentment

He examined the contents of the closets and selected an elegant suit of clothing. Strangely enough, everything about it was shaggy, although so new and beautiful, and he sighed with contentment to realize that he could now be finely dressed and still be the shaggy man.

They seemed happy and contented, though, remarked the Wizard, and those who are contented have nothing to regret and nothing more to wish for.

I shall take the heart, returned the Tin Woodman; for brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.

I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in luck not to have a heart. That must be a matter of opinion, said the Tin Woodman. For my part, I will bear all the unhappiness without a murmur, if you will give me the heart.

That is because you have no brains, answered the girl. No matter how dreary and gray our homes are, we people of flesh and blood would rather live there than in any other country, be it ever so beautiful. There is no place like home.

You are both rich, my friends, said Ozma, gently; and your riches are the only riches worth having—the riches of content!

How about my heart? asked the Tin Woodman. Why, as for that, answered Oz, I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in luck not to have a heart." That must be a matter of opinion, said the Tin Woodman. For my part, I will bear all the unhappiness without a murmur, if you will give me the heart.

It wouldn't matter, remarked the educated Woggle-Bug. he can't get broke so long as he is stuffed with money.

Fico com o coração – respondeu o Homem de Lata –, porque o cérebro não faz ninguém feliz, e a felicidade é a melhor coisa do mundo.

Fortunately money is not known in the Land of Oz at all. We have no rich, and no poor; for what one wishes the others all try to give him, in order to make him happy, and no one in all Oz cares to have more than he can use.

East, west - home's best!

All the same, said the Scarecrow, I shall ask for brains instead of a heart; for a fool would not know what to do with a heart if he had one.   I shall take the heart, returned the Tin Woodman; for brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.

Yo prefiero el corazón —replicó el Leñador—, porque el cerebro no lo hace a uno feliz, y la felicidad es lo mejor que hay en el mundo.

Mesmo assim — disse o Espantalho — vou pedir um cérebro em vez de um coração. Porque um burro, mesmo se tivesse um coração, não ia saber o que fazer com ele. — E eu vou ficar com o coração — respondeu o Lenhador de Lata. — Porque um cérebro não faz ninguém feliz, e a felicidade é a melhor coisa do mundo.

I've never been 'specially proud of myself, but I'd rather be the way I was born than anything else in the whole world.

If we used money to buy things with, instead of love and kindness and the desire to please one another, then we should be no better than the rest of the world, declared the Tin Woodman. Fortunately money is not known in the Land of Oz at all. We have no rich, and no poor; for what one wishes the others all try to give him, in order to make him happy, and no one in all Oz cares to have more than he can use.

Time is given us to be happy and for no other reason...when we waste time, we waste happiness.

and those who are contented have nothing to regret and nothing more to wish for.

To be individual, my friends, to be different from others, is the only way to become distinguished from the common herd. Let us be glad, therefore, that we differ from one another in form and in disposition. Variety is the spice of life, and we are various enough to enjoy one another's society; so let us be content.

Por mais sombria e cinzenta que seja nossa casa, nós, de carne e osso, a preferimos a qualquer outro lugar no mundo, por mais esplêndido que seja. Não há melhor lugar do que a nossa casa.

Ora, acho um engano você querer um coração. Ele só traz infelicidade para a maioria das pessoas. Se você soubesse como tem sorte por não possuir um coração... — Deve ser questão de opinião — disse o Lenhador de Lata. — Por mim, eu aceitaria suportar toda essa infelicidade sem dar um pio, se você me desse um coração.

Be contented with your fate, for discontent leads to unhappiness, and unhappiness, in any form, is the greatest evil that can befall you.

Enquanto eu estava apaixonado era o homem mais feliz do mundo.

Mrs. Lynde says, 'Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.