Quotes About Contentment

Ask a lot, but take what is offered.

Happiness is a bowl of cherries and a book of poetry under a shade tree.

Life would move on with or without me, and I didn't need to change myself in order to be beautiful, or happy, or worthly of love. I already was.

Happy girls are the prettiest

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.

The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters.

Right now we are here, and nothing can mar our perfection, or steal the joy of this perfect moment.

Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?

All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other.

An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is always possible to be happy.

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No olvides nunca que puedes tener al mejor compañero a tu lado, pero serás infeliz si no estás enamorada de tu propia vida.

Esperar que esteja tudo certo na vida, esperar resolver todos os meus problemas para ser feliz é um paradoxo inaceitável. Vou morrer infeliz.

Los secretos de la felicidad se ocultan en las cosas simples y anónimas.

At this age, I should be leading a quiet life.

Be positive and you will be headed towards lasting contentment and the success you crave.

Be selective when choosing your friends. Remember, you only need people who truly make you happy.

Love can simply wipe away all your worries and replace them with security and happiness.

People often search for happiness in another person, when actually it comes from within.

America, for me, has been the pursuit and catching of happiness.

Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.