Quotes About Contentment

I'm happy because I won't have to train again, or travel or sit in team hotels.

I woke up!" he replied, eye twinkling in his haggard face, "and that's reason enough to be happy!

Off in the distance there were galleons of shock-white cumulus coulds gathering in the wide sky's cerulean harbor, and their azure shadows floated over the flatlands. Billy surprised himself by saying: "I love it here. I'll never leave.

Money is nice. I don´t mean it´s wonderful like a river or anything; and, as they say, it can´t buy happiness, but it´s comfortable in your pockets

The great thing about arriving at this age is that I don't even care about my career anymore.

Don't love anything that can be taken away.

they had reached a plateau on which she suffered and he seemed quite content.

I ended up with forty acres; I ended up with a broken fiddle-- And a broken laugh, and a thousand memories, and not a sin- gle regret.

Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.

La 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. Además, la #Felicidad es minimalista. Es sencilla y desnuda. Es una casi nada que lo es todo.

I want to do something absolutely different, or perhaps nothing at all: just stay where I am, in my home, and absorb each hour, each day, and be alone; and read and think; and walk about the garden in the night; and wait, wait...

Happiness is making the most of what you have, and riches is making the most of what you've got.

What a happy woman I am, living in a garden, with books, babies, birds and flowers, and plenty of leisure to enjoy them. Sometimes I feel as if I were blest above all my fellows in being able to find happiness so easily." (Quoted from Elizabeth and Her German Garden by Elizabeth von Arnim)

Time had lost its importance. That was one of the good things about getting old: you weren't perpetually in a hurry. All her life, Penelope had looked after other people, but now she had no one to think about but herself. There was time to stop and look, and, looking, to remember. Visions widened, like views seen from the slopes of a painfully climbed mountain, and having come so far, it seemed ridiculous not to pause and enjoy them.

I suppose you could say this delights us although 'delight' is a word I rarely use. Delight seems insubstantial; happiness feels more grounded; ecstasy is what I shoot for; satisfaction is hardest to attain.

I reached over and held Pollux's wide hand as we slowly drove along. There was a slick of rain on the empty, peaceful streets. 'Why can't it always be this way?' I asked Pollux. He gave me an odd look. I turned aside. The empty street swished beneath the tires. Perhaps I should have been ashamed. Why was it that I felt this was the world I'd always waited for?

Love - which the young expect, the middle-aged fear or wrestle with or find unbearable or clutch to death- those content in their age, finally, cherish with pained gratitude.

It was this immense resignation to the shape of his life that opened him every day to the experience of joy.

He wasn't meek, but he was in his person deeply resigned to what he did. It was this immense resignation to the shape of his life that opened him every day to the experience of

I'M GLAD I'M NOT PERFECT—I'D BE BORED TO DEATH.

Danny: I'm a bit jealous, Sheila. Sheila: Are you, my dear? What on earth for? Danny: Well, because you've really lived, Sheila. Sheila: Of course I have, Daniel. What else is life for?

The main thing isn't knowing whether you're right or wrong. That really doesn't matter...The main thing is to keep people from bothering you...The rest is eyewash...

But maybe it's wrong of me to complain … I'm alive after all … and I lose an enemy or two every day … cancer, apoplexy, gluttony … it's a pleasure the number that pass on! … I'm not hard to please … a name! … another! … there are good things in life …