Quotes About Contentment

We're even more dazed than usual. Here we sit, empty, bewildered, contented. We have nothing to talk about, because nothing happens to us anymore, we're too poor, maybe life is sick of us. Why not?

What more did I want, after all, than my daily bread and some time to myself? Happiness in short.

If you've got to be unhappy, you may as well keep regular habits.

Nigdy niczego nie potrzebuj?... Odmawiam wszystkiego... Nie chc? ani poca?unku... ani r?cznika! Chc? tylko pogr??a? si? we wspomnieniach!... I ?eby zostawiono mnie w spokoju!... Wszystkie wspomnienia!... Okoliczno?ci! To wszystko, czego sobie ?ycz?!...

Blessed are those who can content themselves with whorehouses! Parapine

Happiness on earth would be to die with and while having pleasure … The rest is nothing at all, a fear that we don't dare avow

Poor people never, or hardly ever, ask for an explanation of all they have to put up with. They hate one another, and content themselves with that.

You can have everything in the world, and have nothing. Or you can have little and have it all.

She had learned—by degrees—the ability to accept what life was handing her instead of what she wished for.

It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.

I believe that we're as happy in life as we make up our minds to be.

I was willing to take being second best if it meant I could still . . . you know. Be with him.

Now I knew that joy was a kind of fearlessness, a letting go of expectations that the world should be anything other than what it was.

If you couldn't be loved, the next best thing was to be left alone.

Nature seemed to have folded satisfied hands to rest, knowing that her long wintry slumber was coming upon her.

I do hope that some day I shall have a white dress. That is my highest ideal of earthly bliss.

But we can't have things perfect in this imperfect world

Today, I counted the money I had earned all these years from my pen. It was quite a great deal of fortunes. Unfortunately, money does not buy happiness.

Yollar?m?z geniÅŸ de olabilir dar da ama bu bizim onlara nas?l bakt???m?zla alâkal? yani elde ettiklerimizle deÄŸil. Hayat burada da her yerde olduÄŸu gibi zengin ve dopdolu. Yeter ki yüreklerimizi bu zenginliÄŸe ve berekete açmay? bilelim

Afinal, creio que os dias melhores e mais doces não são aqueles em que acontece algo muito esplêndido, maravilhoso e empolgante, mas sim aqueles que trazem os pequenos e simples prazeres, um após o outro sem pressa, como pérolas soltando-se de um colar.

I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful happens, but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string

Anne was always glad in the happiness of her friends; but it is sometimes a little lonely to be surrounded everywhere by happiness that is not your own

Mais vale um pássaro na mão do que dois voando, a senhora Morris disse para ela. — Tenho ouvido esse provérbio a minha vida inteira — disse Myra Murray —, e me pergunto se é verdade. Talvez os pássaros voando pudessem cantar, e aquele na mão, não.

Ja osobiÅ›cie mam tylko jedno marzenie - odezwaÅ' siÄ™ przyciszonym gÅ'osem. - Powraca ono do mnie ciÄ…gle, chocia? wiem, ?e prawdopodobnie nigdy siÄ™ nie speÅ'ni. MarzÄ™ o wÅ'asnym domu, o rozpalonym ogniu w kominku, o wÅ'asnym kocie i psie, o odgÅ'osie kroków przyjacióÅ', którzy przyszli w odwiedziny i - marzÄ™ o tobie.