Quotes About Contentment

A loaf of bread and a clean collar; what does man want more?

Sólo ha pasado una cosa importante durante los últimos tres días, y es que nada ha pasado.

Enough Is as Good as a feast.

CORO Aver senno è di molto il primo fondamento di una vita felice.»

learn not to overstretch ourselves with extraneous activities and preoccupations, but to simplify our lives more and more. The key to finding a happy balance in modern lives is simplicity.

Call no man happy until he is dead.

If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence every one must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

count no man happy until he be dead.

Sonia, there just comes a moment when you decide it's time to be happy and that is all." I had that moment in Malta, but it was good to hear it again.

The endless challenge no matter where any of us lives is to choose what we take from all that our surroundings have to offer and put it together in a way that creates our own happiness.

We all fail to appreciate each day just how much we already possess. Light, air, freedom, the companionship of friends.

Material possessions aren't important to me, I say breathlessly. All that matters to me is yoga.

This is my new guiding principle: Find a man of quality. Not a man who excites me but one who values me. Not a man who takes me to the moon and then vanishes off to New York but one who takes me to…Bracknell, maybe.

Love. This is a lorry, not a Ferrari.

You can't have everything [...] because where on earth would you put it?

Hare hare . . . I've moved on . . . hare hare . . . I'm in a good place . . .

I can feel every self-defensive instinct waking up. Because here's the thing I need to remember: life is good at the moment. And I'm not about to blight it by pining after a man. I'm not about to hope for impossible things. However well we seemed to work together.

as I survey the faces that I love so dearly, I feel a kind of contentment. So we're not flash. So we're not moneyed. So we don't have all the answers or know exactly where we're going. We'll still be all right, our family. We'll be all right.

The sky is an endless, evening blue and there's the smell of honeysuckle in the air. Music is burbling away gently in the background and Nathaniel's hand is resting casually on my thigh. I have never felt so content in my life.

The happiest life is to be without thought

count no man happy till he dies, free of pain at last.

There is no happiness where there is no wisdom...

Despite so many ordeals, my advanced age and the nobility of my soul make me conclude that all is well.

If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.