Quotes About Contentment

Kusurlu dünyada her ÅŸeyin mükemmel olmas?n? bekleyemeyiz.

She was too happy to sleep just yet.

Not that I bother much with dress myself. Women just dress to please the men, and I'd never stoop to that . I have had a real placid, comfortable life, dearie, and it's just because I never cared a cent what the men thought.

Bayan Lynde'in dedi?i gibi, 'E?er ne?eli olam?yorsan, olabildi?in kadar ne?eli ol.

it's the homiest spot I ever saw-it's homier than home avowed Philippa Gorden, looking about her with delighted eyes.

Yet he never seemed unhappy or unsatisfied. As long as he could plough and garden and reap he was as contented as a sunny old pasture. His black hair was but lightly frosted with silver and a ripe, serene spirit revealed itself in his rare but sweet smiles. His old fields had given him bread and delight, joy of conquest and comfort in sorrow. Anne was satisfied because he was buried near them. He might have "gone gladly" but he had lived gladly, too. The

Better a dinner of herbs where your chums are than a stalled ox in a lonely boardinghouse.

Jane was smiling and happy; examinations were over and she was comfortably sure she had made a pass at least; further considerations troubled Jane not at all; she had no soaring ambitions and consequently was not affected with the unrest attendant thereon. For we pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self-denial, anxiety and discouragement.

Mrs. Lynde says, 'Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall for be disappointed.' But I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush,' Mrs. Morris told her. I've heard that proverb all my life, said Myra Murray, and I wonder if it's true. Perhaps the birds in the bush could sing and the one in the hand couldn't.

Isn't that a view worth looking at? Nice and far from the marketplace, ain't it? No buying and selling and getting gain. You don't have to pay anything- all that sea and sky free- 'without money and without price.

Oh, of course he's good, agreed Anne. But he doesn't seem to get any comfort out of it. If I could be good I'd dance and sing all day because I was glad of it.

I can't cheer up — I don't want to cheer up. It's nicer to be miserable!

God's in His heaven, alls right with the world.

A plate of apples, an open fire, and a jolly good book are a fair substitute for heaven.

I was no longer satisfied with the small change of experience, which had hitherto contented me. I wanted to deal in larger sums.

Ich gönnte keinem andern, fuhr er fort zu lügen, Ein solch olympisch Schlemmerglück, Nur dir, mein liebster Freund, allein. Geniesse dies mit vollen Zügen.

What if I'm truly never happy again? What if I've just experienced the most happiness, the most love, I'll ever know?

Part of the trick of being happy is a refusal to allow oneself to become too nostalgic for the heady triumphs of one's youth.

Life in San Francisco is still just life. If you want one thing too much it's likely to be a disappointment. The healthy way is to learn to like the everyday things, like soft beds and buttermilk—and

No, but I have passed the point in life where I expect to be satisfied," Augustus said. "At least I don't expect to be satisfied with much. When it comes right down to it, Woodrow, I guess my own cooking beats anything I've come across in this life.

I don't think you ever wanted to be happy anyway. It don't suit you, so you managed to avoid it.

If you want one thing too much it's likely to be a disappointment. The healthy way is to learn to like the everyday things, like soft beds and buttermilk

Somewhere along the Rio Concho, he had stopped feeling that he lived in a world where ledgers mattered.