Quotes About Contentment

I just want a quiet life. I think that's what everybody says when they get older.

You have to make peace with life

The best revenge is a life well lived.

I'm fine with the life I have.

Repose without stagnation is the state most favorable to happiness. "The great felicity of life," says Seneca, "is to be without perturbations.

I'm content with life, and I'm finally at that place where I feel relaxed and can really enjoy what's going on around me.

To play someone who is who they are because of the happiness and contentedness that they've known in their life is interesting because of sort of how banal it is.

I don't have life rage anymore.

I have no projects on the horizon. I don't feel frustrated. It's a great life lesson for me.

I have no regrets about my life. People ask, "If you had to do it all over again, would you do it differently?" No. That's speculation.

I've got so many blessings in my life.

There may be times in a girl's life when it's better to be boyless, but there's no need to be joyless. Or toyless.

When I look back on my life, I don't have regrets about what I didn't do. If I'd become a musician, it could have ruined my life.

A Book of Verses underneath the Bough,A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread—and ThouBeside me singing in the Wilderness—Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!

Leave well - even 'pretty well' - alone that is what I learn as I get old.

What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expenses, and my expense is equal to my wishes.

I was never less alone than when by myself.

Interviewer: What is your greatest regret? Gorey: That I don't have one

I have given up considering happiness as relevant.

Grant me daily the grace of gratitude, to be thankful for all my gifts, and so be freed from artificial needs, that I might lead a joyful, simple life.

Riding sidesaddle with envy is a dangerous practice: I would be happy if I had what he or she possesses. By contrast, giving thanks constantly and in all circumstances liberates us from envy.

Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is.

Ploffskin, Pluffskin, Pelican jee! We think no Birds so happy as we! Plumpskin, Ploshkin, Pelican jill! We think so then, and we thought so still!