Quotes About Contentment

We were not rich, of course—far from it; but we had enough to eat and use and save—always.

For you know me well enough, my good Sir, to be persuaded that I am not guilty of affectation when I tell you it is my great and sole desire to live and die, in peace and retirement, on my own farm.

I went home in great delight.

Laura was sufficiently pleased with work that she felt in no special rush to get married.

It was his own Walden, a place where "fine views invest the soul and where we can live simply and quietly.

He avoided a gaudy residence and had no desire to impress other people.

I lose all taste for the pursuits of ambition. I sigh for nothing but the company of my wife and my baby.

Money can't buy no blessins.

If Mama ain't happy, ain't nobody happy.

The lift of her heart she'd felt on the outcrop she now felt again, and it wasn't just love. She'd felt love before, known its depths when her mother died. This was something rarer. Happiness, Laurel thought, that must be what this is.

This is what we want," she said, her voice deepening, the emotion so often controlled fully unbridled now. "To be like this always. No past or future, pure enough to live totally in the present.

But after a career of dissipation she seems delighted to settle down.

Just think how happy you'd be if you lost everything you have right now & then got it back.

A tree's a tree. How many more do you need to look at?

Felicidad es minimalista. Es sencilla y desnuda. Es una casi nada que lo es todo.

La insatisfacción de los humanos, ese querer siempre algo más, algo mejor, algo distinto, es el origen de innumerables desdichas.

Cuanto más se envejece, más se siente que saber gozar del presente es un don precioso, comparable a un estado de gracia.»

Os deseo un año de salud, de satisfacciones, de buen trabajo, un año durante el cual tengáis cada día el gusto de vivir, sin esperar que los días que hayan tenido que pasar para encontrar su satisfacción y sin tener necesidad de poner esperanzas de felicidad en los días que hayan de venir.

Qui plus est, le bonheur est minimaliste. Il est simple et dépouillé. C'est un presque rien qui fait tout.

Además, la #Felicidad es minimalista. Es sencilla y desnuda.

Ambos teníamos pareja en nuestros respectivos países y en cualquier caso la historia había sido demasiado hermosa como para fastidiarla con la cotidianeidad. O con dudas de identidad. O con preguntas. Otra de las cosas que una aprende con la edad es a tomar las cosas como vienen. E incluso a dar las gracias.

All times are beautiful for those who maintain joy within them; but there is no happy or favorable time for those with disconsolate or orphaned souls.

Rosamunde Pilcher

One just had to be content with what had happened so far.