Quotes About Contentment

Perhaps I have not really a good temper at all, but if you have everything you want and everyone is kind to you, how can you help but be good-tempered? Perhaps I'm a HIDEOUS child, and no one will ever know, just beecause I never have any trials. (Sara Crewe, A Little Princess)

I don't know what it is to be hungry

Frances Hodgson Burnett

She was so happy that she scarcely dared to breathe.

She went from place to place, and dug and weeded, and enjoyed herself so immensely that she was led on from bed to bed and into the grass under the trees. The exercise made her so warm that she first threw her coat off, and then her hat, and without knowing it she was smiling down on to the grass and the pale green points all the time.

lad—what's names to th' Joy Maker

Everything as strange and silent, and she seemed to be hundreds of miles away from anyone, but somehow she did not feel lonely at all.

curled herself up in the window-seat, opened a book, and began to read.

I had a concise list of what I wanted out of life, three things (my merry mantra): to be thin, to publish a book with my name on it, and to fall in love with a man who loved me back. (In the wisdom of my thirties I revised this to be a sane man.) The last two items were predicated on being thin.

As Chevalley says,] 'Sicilians never want to improve for the simple reason that they think themselves perfect...

Kiedy zapyta?am mojego przyjaciela jakie miejsce do zamieszkania uwa?a za najlepsze, odpowiedzia?: Nigdzie, ko?o gdzieb?dzia.

Quit it already. I'm pretty enough as it is.

I dont know about happily ever after… but I know about happily, Weetzie Bat thought..

The happier you are, the less you need.

Life was small but good. (15)

I don't know about happily ever after...but I know about happily.

A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.

I think about what I've lost instead of thinking about what I have.

Only fools and the dead are content.

Wealth isn't evil, Kate. It's the love of money that is. When no matter how much you have is never enough.

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.

One would think, to look at him, that he ought to be jolly; one might think, considering his enormous wealth, that he ought to be happy; but this was not the case.

contentment has to do with what we accept, what we expect and what we measure our current situations against.

In these days of wars and rumors of wars, haven't you ever dreamed of a place where there was peace and security, where living was not a struggle but a lasting delight?