Quotes About Contentment

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.

But a lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

Dac? nu eÈ™ti în stare s? preÈ›uieÈ™ti ceea ce ai, atunci caut? s? ai ceea ce eÈ™ti în stare s? preÈ›uieÈ™ti.

Yes, a lifetime of happiness. If it were only the first half hour's happiness, Tavy, I would buy it for you with my last penny. But a lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

The secret of a happy life is to do work you enjoy and then you'll be too busy to know whether you're happy or not.

DiÅŸ aÄŸr?s? çekenler diÅŸleri saÄŸlam olanlar?; yoksulluk çekenler de paras? çok olanlar? mutlu san?rlar.

The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not

True grace is recognizing and appreciating what you have in your hands instead of trying to keep up with everybody else's "prosperity.

I had no shoes, and I felt sorry for myself until I met a man who had no feet. I took his shoes. Now I feel better.

The sooner you plant that seed the sooner shall the tree grow. And the more faithfully you nourish and water that tree with consistent savings, the sooner may you bask in contentment beneath it's shade

We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.

But if Maggie had been that young lady, you would probably have known nothing about her: her life would have had so few vicissitudes that it could hardly have been written; for the happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

One's self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated.

Who with repentance is not satisfied, is not of heaven, nor earth.

In poor Rosamond's mind there was not room enough for luxuries to look small in.

I should be glad to see a good change in anybody, Mr. Godfrey.' she answered, with the slightest discernible difference of tone, 'but it 'ud be better if no change was wanted.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

You must be sure of two things: you must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin.

What have you been doing lately?' 'I? Oh, minding the house–pouring out syrup–pretending to be amiable and contented–learning to have a bad opinion of everybody.

Her shrewdness had a streak of satiric bitterness continually renewed and never carried utterly out of sight, except by a strong current of gratitude towards those who, instead of telling her that she ought to be contented, did something to make her so.

To see an enemy humiliated gives a certain contentment, but this is jejune compared with the highly blent satisfaction of seeing him humiliated by your benevolent action of concession on his behalf. That is a sort of revenge which falls into the scale of virtue [...]

Not at all, said Dorothea, with the most open kindness. I like you very much. Will was not quite contented, thinking that he would apparently have been of more importance if he had been disliked. He said nothing, but looked dull, not to say sulky.

But we get accustomed to mental as well as bodily pain, without, for all that, losing our sensibility to it. It becomes a habit of our lives, and we cease to imagine a condition of perfect ease as possible for us. Desire is chastened into submission, and we are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence and act as if we were not suffering.