Quotes About Contentment

Meat may go up in price — it has done — but books won't. Admission to picture galleries and concerts and so forth will remain quite low. The views from Richmond Hill or Hindhead, or along Pall Mall at sunset, the smell of the earth, the taste of fruit and of kisses — these things are unaffected by the machinations of trusts and the hysteria of stock exchanges.

Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.

Sommige mensen lijden omdat ze niet hoeven te leven. Ze hebben alles. Hun natje, hun droogje, een dak boven het hoofd. Maar ze hoeven niet te leven, want ze hebben alles. Als ze een boek waren geweest, zou een recensent vast schrijven: 'Aardig, maar de noodzaak ontbreekt'.

the best things in life aren't things

Perhaps it is better to be un-sane and happy, than sane and un-happy. But it is the best of all to be sane and happy. Whether our descendants can achieve that goal will be the greatest challenge of the future. Indeed, it may well decide whether we have any future.

the happy hum of humanity.

He knew now that when power and ambition and curiosity were satisfied, there still were left the longings of the heart.

They were, perhaps, as contented as any race the world had known, and after their fashion they were happy. They spent their long lives amid beauty that had never been surpassed, for the labour of millions of centuries had been dedicated to the glory of Diaspar.

though surprising and frequently challenged, appeared to be accurate, for simps were quite happy to work fifteen hours a day and did not get bored by the most menial and repetitious tasks.

When no one lacks anything, there is no point in stealing.

In my life I have found two things of priceless worth—learning and loving. Nothing else—not fame, not power, not achievement for its own sake—can possibly have the same lasting value. For when your life is over, if you can say 'I have learned' and 'I have loved,' you will also be able to say 'I have been happy.

The cause of suffering is desire

In any case, Watson, you have turned out to be a prize flat-mate. I couldn't have asked for better.

me sibilat, at mihi plaudo Ipse domi simul ac nummos contemplor in arca.

The only real peace anyone will ever have is the one that comes from within. Live your life on your own terms and make it a happy life. Always. That's what's important

You can put them in a room with QVC and they'll be as happy as clams." "QVC?" the demons said in unison. Simi looked at her watch. "It Diamonique time, too. Where's a TV?" Sin

Maybe that was the point of life. Not to get the things you wanted that you thought would make you happy. But to find the things you truly needed, those most wonderful people that you just couldn't live without

You changed my life," He amended. "You didn't mess it up. It's so much better because the two of you are with me. I don't think I'd realized just how much I missed being with family until you and Mandy came to live with me. Nothing matters more to me than your happiness and Mandy's. It kills me to think you're so unhappy that you'd rather die than be with you.

Gossip, I have discovered, is seldom spread about people who find happiness or contentment.

Happiness is not having what you want, it is wanting what you have.

if it makes you happy, then why the hell are you so sad?

It's not having what you want, it's wanting what you have.

It's not having what you want, it's wanting what you've got.

I like a good beer buzz early in the morning.