Quotes About Contentment

You need a reason to be sad. You don't need a reason to be happy.

Now, with no hate group to run, Jerry spent his days playing Mah-jong on his computer

Such hours are beautiful to live, but hard to describe, so I will leave it to the imagination of my readers, merely saying that the house was full of genuine happiness.

Cuesta tan poco hacer feliz a un niño, que es lamentable que en el mundo, lleno de alegría y de objetos agradables, haya pequeños con caritas tristes, las manos vacías y los corazones apesadumbrados.

I'm not like the rest of you; I never made any plans about what I'd do when I grew up; I never thought of being married, as you did. I couldn't seem to imagine myself anything but stupid little Beth, trotting about at home, of no use anywhere but there. I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is leaving you all. I'm not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven.

I have nothing to give but my heart so full and these empty hands. They're not empty now.

You have grown abominably lazy, and you like gossip, and waste time on frivolous things, you are contented to be petted and admired by silly people, instead of being loved and respected by wise ones.

It takes so little to make a child happy, that it is a pity in a world full of sunshine and pleasant things, that there should be any wistful faces, empty hands, or lonely little hearts.

I'm happy as I am, and love my liberty too well to be in a hurry to give it up for any mortal man.

Dear me! how happy and good we'd be, if we had no worries!

I'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queen's on thrones, without self-respect and peace.

Well, I am happy, and I won't fret, but it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants…

I don't believe I shall ever marry; I'm happy as I am, and love my liberty too well to be in any hurry to give it up for any mortal man.

A time will come when you will find that in gaining a brief joy you have lost your peace forever.

I'm perfectly miserable; but if you consider me presentable, I die happy.

Money is a needful and precious thing, and when well used, a noble thing, but I never want you to think it is the first or only prize to strive for. I'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queens on thrones, without self-respect and peace.

So she enjoyed herself heartily, and found, what isn't always the case, that her granted wish was all she had hoped.

Nothing more,—except that I don't believe I shall ever marry; I'm happy as I am, and love my liberty too well to be in any hurry to give it up for any mortal man.

I've been so bothered with my property, that I'm tired of it, and don't mean to save up any more, but give it away as I go along, and then nobody will envy me, or want to steal it, and I shan't be suspecting folks and worrying about my old cash.

It's lovely to see people so happy.

I don't envy her much, in spite of her money, for after all rich people have about as many worries as poor ones, I think

Poor Meg seldom complained, but a sense of injustice made her feel bitter toward everyone sometimes, for she had not yet learned to know how rich she was in the blessings which alone can make life happy.

I planned to spend mine in new music, said Beth, with a little sigh, which no one heard but the hearth brush and kettle-holder.

she never had what she wanted till she had given up hoping for,' said Mrs. Meg.