Quotes About Contentment

I never wanted to be rich or successful or famous. I just wanted to be happy and have fun.

She felt lighter suddenly, lighter and happier

Variety is overrated, honey. Regardless of what your country club friends say, most women just want to find a decent guy who can inspire lust now and again.

I'm back to doing everything I used to, loving life as ever.

Are you happy here?" I said at last. He considered this for a moment. "Not particularly," he said. "But you're not very happy where you are, either.

When your children are older, you will be able to make more opportunities happen for quiet prayer. While the children are small, be content with your busy life, raising your thoughts and heart to God often, thanking Him for His love in your family.

Relax in your own home, Kylie. It's one of the few places on earth you're free to be as you really are.

Geht es dir gut? Ja, sagt er, ist okay. Ist okay, tot zu sein - man hat nicht mehr all diese schrecklichen Gefühle in der Brust.

I like joy; I want to be joyous. I want to smile and I want to make people laugh. And that`s all I want. I like being happy. I want to make others happy.

The trouble with simple living is that, though it can be joyful, rich, and creative, it isn't simple.

There is only one real sin, and that is to persuade oneself that the second-best is anything but the second-best

Until you make peace with who you are, you will never be content with what you have.

Everyone was happy. That may seem to be an overly simplistic way to state the very complicated facts, but it was the truth. That happiness was so hard won. I had scars to prove it. We all did.

A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. 'I reckon,' he asid, with a twinkle in his eye, 'It's because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.'

He's a wonderful dancer,' Laurel cooed. She didn't know; she'd never danced with him. But as long as she didn't act up any more than this, he was satisfied.

Not a thing had happened the way she had planned, no, not a single thing! But it seemed to her she had never been so happy in her life.

That room was full to the brim of something beautiful,...Its name was Happiness.

The surest route to breeding jealousy is to compare. Since jealousy comes from feeling less than another, comparisons only fan the fires.

I felt, even at fifteen, that God meant man to be happy, that He meant to provide him with what he needed to maintain life in order to be happy, and that we did not need to have quite so much destruction and misery as I saw all around and read of in the daily press.

If everything I possessed, vanished, suddenly, I'd be sorry. But I value things unpossessed. The wind, and trees, and sky and kind thoughts, much more.

Money isn't the root of all evil; the love of money isn't the root of all evil; the NEED for money is the root of all evil.

Putting everything on hold to achieve the one thing you think will make you happy will actually mean that you're miserable along the way to getting there, and when you get there, you might find that the thing wanted doesn't make you as happy as you thought it would. Or worse, you've completely forgotten how to be happy.

I would rather have nothing than something that was only alright.

She believed that owning a lots of things made you a better person. She didn't know - possibly didn't want to know - that happiness comes from the inside.