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Quotes About Contentment

There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled.
~ Herman Melville
An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.
~ Ouida
What doesn't hurt - is not life; what doesn't pass - is not happiness.
~ Ivo Andric
If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
~ Norman MacEwen
To make a happy fireside clime To weans and wife, That's the true pathos and sublime Of human life.
~ Robert Burns
What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
~ Leo Buscaglia
This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
~ Agnes Varda
When you learn not to want things so badly, life comes to you.
~ Jessica Lange
Where you stand, where you are, that's what your life is right there, regardless of how painful it is or how enjoyable it is. That's what it is.
~ Taizan Maezumi
The more rules you have about how people have to be, how life has to be for you to be happy, the less happy you're going to be.
~ Tony Robbins
Life ain't all beer and skittles, and more's the pity; but what's the odds, so long as you're happy?
~ George du Maurier
When you are not happy with your life, always think that someone is happy simply because you exist
~ Friedrich Schiller
Whatever happens in life is fine - just trust in that.
~ Orlando Bloom
Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache.
~ Philip Wylie
No one who appreciates the shortness of this life and the eternality of the next can ever say, 'I'm bored'
~ Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi
Take care to guard against all greed, for though one may be rich, one's life does not consist of possessions.
~ Luke the Evangelist
The point of life is happiness.
~ Dalai Lama
I'm just an all-around happy girl who loves everything about her life.
~ Missy Franklin
There are only four things in life that matter. The first is happiness and I'll sell you the other three for a dollar.
~ Sam Walton
I believe the second half of one's life is meant to be better than the first half. The first half is finding out how you do it. And the second half is enjoying it.
~ Frances Lear
Do you want to know the secret of life? If you want to have everything, don't want anything. Everything will run after you.
~ Swami Satchidananda
I appreciate a lot in this life; the things you cannot buy. Life is only once. I am happy being here and all the things that are a risk I normally avoid.
~ Rafael Nadal
What I have learned from life is to make the most of what you have got.
~ Stephen Hawking