Quotes About Contentment

I have something that makes me happy on some level and this is a good way for me to deal with the torment of that teenage life gave me

Middle Age, a restful, welcome break from real life, brings some unique opportunities.

Sometimes I find that in my happy moments I could not believe that I had ever been miserable.

I just try to have a good time, enjoy my family, enjoy my life. I was having a blast when I was poor, and I'm having maybe a little bit more now that I've got something in the bank.

Born empty handed, Die empty handed. I witnessed life at its fullest, Empty handed.

After years of making wrong decisions in my life, in 1977 I found out that it was all right to be square, simple, and sober.

The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.

It seems to me that the most delightful walk of life is to be found in a household of moderate means, to live there with an obliging spouse and to be satisfied with little.

I am just a normal professional with a great job and a great life.

Like cats and ice cream, showers were among life's simple, uncomplicated pleasures.

I've never contended that I had a really horrible life.

I've gotten to the place where I find life too short for if-only.

Keep your expectations tiny you'll go through life not so whiney.

I judge my life by how miserable it used to be. If I could pay my rent, I was deliriously happy. Now I'm deliriously happy all the time.

I've spent so much of my adult life in relationships that it's actually quite pleasant to be alone at last. I turned thirty-six the other day, which staggers me when I think about it.

I do like to keep my private life to myself. But then again, I don't really get up to much.

It is not by change of circumstances, but by fitting our spirits to the circumstances in which God has placed us, that we can be reconciled to life and duty.

The game of life looks cheerful when one carries a treasure safe in his heart.

I have enjoyed earthly happiness, I have lived and loved.

My goal was just to live a good life that I was happy with. And I wasn't exactly sure that that meant being the star of a movie.

I rest content that all things work together for my good. Whatever, then, the future brings... I ask for strength to follow [God] and grace to trust [Him] still.

A woman in her glory, a woman of beauty, is a woman who is not striving to become beautiful or worthy or enough. She knows in her quiet center where God dwells that he find her beautiful, has deemed her worthy, and in him, she is enough.

The moment you realize you already have everything you're looking for, the universe gives it to you.

Nella chiara mattina domenicale camminavo lungo Olive Street. La città sembrava deserta, la strada era tranquilla. Mi fermai ad ascoltare. Sentivo qualcosa. Era il suono della felicità. Era il mio cuore che batteva dolcemente, ritmicamente. Un orologio, ecco cosa era, un piccolo congegno della felicità.