Quotes About Contentment

Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since.

If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.

If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.

If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.

There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there's no reason why you shouldn't have a fairly good time.

In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

Nothing less will content me, than whole America.

Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.

He who expects little is rarely disappointed.

Claudite jam rivos, pueri: Sat prata biberunt.

For once, he could look back at the past without regret, and at the future without bewilderment. Simply and touchingly, he wrote in his diary: "I have had so much happiness in my life so far that I feel, no matter what sorrows come, the joys will have overbalanced them.

Indeed, until one tries it for himself, it is incredible what dignity there is in an old hat, what virtue in a time-worn coat, and how savory the dinner-table can be made without sirloin steaks and cranberry tarts.

That here on earth is no sure happiness.

It is the mynd, that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happie, rich or poore: For some, that hath abundance at his will, Hath not enough, but wants in greatest store; And other, that hath litle, askes no more, But in that litle is both rich and wise. For wisedome is most riches; fooles therefore They are, which fortunes doe by vowes deuize, Sith each vnto himselfe his life may fortunize.

It may be that there is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.

There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.

What can death do to you at ninety that life hasn't done to you already!

She is happy where she lies With the dust upon her eyes.

I will be the gladdest thing Under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers And not pick one. I will look at cliffs and clouds With quiet eyes, Watch the wind bow down the grass, And the grass rise. And when lights begin to show Up from the town, I will mark which must be mine, And then start down!

But the roaring of the fire, And the warmth of fur, And the boiling of the kettle Were beautiful to her!

The Unexplorer" There was a road ran past our house Too lovely to explore. I asked my mother once—she said That if you followed where it led It brought you to the milk-man's door. (That's why I have not traveled more.)

Afternoon on a Hill" I will be the gladdest thing Under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers And not pick one. I will look at cliffs and clouds With quiet eyes, Watch the wind bow down the grass, And the grass rise. And when lights begin to show Up from the town, I will mark which must be mine, And then start down!

I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.