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Quotes About Contentment

The dog's life is a good life, for a dog.
~ Edward Abbey
She lived, we'll say, A harmless life, she called a virtuous life, A quiet life, which was not life at all (But that she had not lived enough to know)
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
To be prosperous and happy in life, Henry, it is simple. Pick one woman, pick it well, and surrender.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
O happy life! life hid with Christ in God! So making me At home and by the wayside and abroad, Alone with Thee.
~ Elizabeth Prentiss
There's so much guilt there attached to having a perfectly good life.
~ Emma Forrest
Thank God for the joys of family life. I have often said there can be no genuine happiness separate and apart from a good home. The sweetest influences and associations of life are there
~ Ezra Taft Benson
Power comes from leading a controlled life, a happy life, a perky life.
~ Frederick Lenz
Don't become a slave to success or failure, family, friends, possessions. If these things come to you in life, enjoy them, but fix your consciousness on that which does not change.
~ Frederick Lenz
You must develop a rich inner life to enjoy life altogether.
~ Gabrielle Bernstein
India profoundly changed my outlook on life because you see how people can be content and very happy with little or even no possessions. It's the reverse of the West.
~ Gary Wright
My material life is simple.
~ Gustavo Dudamel
As a woman, when you embrace where you are in life, then I think the struggle [life] isn't so hard. If you're 42 and still think you're an ingenue, then you've got a problem.
~ Halle Berry
Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life. This life in the present.
~ Henry David Thoreau
To live a better life,--this surely can be done.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Content with his past life, let him take leave of life like a satiated guest.
~ Horace
I got a very good life. I sold plenty of records, I get recognized plenty, I can always have somebody call up and get me a fine table at a restaurant. What do you really need, ultimately?
~ Huey Lewis
One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats, and if some of these can be inexpensive and quickly procured so much the better.
~ Iris Murdoch
Maybe getting more isn't the answer to life. Maybe it's giving.
~ Jen Lilley
I have a really good life and I really like it.
~ Jessa Crispin
There is an unmistakable freedom that accompanies contentment: a freedom to be who you are, enjoy who you are, and live the life you were destined to live.
~ Josh Becker
In life, in true life, there can be nothing better than what is. Wanting something different than what is, is blasphemy.
~ Leo Tolstoy
A long life is a life well spent.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Sometimes people think, "You don't get to have it all, you don't get to be happy, life's a struggle," but what if it's not?
~ Lissie
To live as fully, as completely as possible, to be happy ... is the true aim and end to life.
~ Llewellyn Powers