Quotes About Contentment

In life it isn't what you've lost, it's what you've got left that counts

Enjoy the necessities of life but eschew the excesses.

Between the monster and the fool there are many people who walk the middle path with a dog at their heels, their lives enriched by giving the dog a dog's life.

If you aren't happy with your life, change things until you are... if you can't change something, change your attitude about it.

You must not think that I feel, in spite of it having ended in such defeat, that my "life has been wasted" here, or that I would exchange it with that of anyone I know.

I am satisfied with everything in my life. Including the fact that I spent time in jail.

It was a shame, but as Ron said, you couldn't have everything in life.

Many parts of my life are perfectly ordinary, if that's what you mean. One could even call it boring, but that's what I like about it.

It's foolish to go through life bemoaning the fact that you can't have this or that. Twaddle! You can omit certain foods and still enjoy eating.

The people who don't have a great life are the ones who settle for a good one.

I'm more interested in enjoying my life and looking after my family than being hugely successful.

Happy the life, that in a peaceful stream, Obscure, unnoticed through the vale has flow'd; The heart that ne'er was charm'd by fortune's gleam Is ever sweet contentment's blest abode.

There are times in life when the most comfortable thing is to do nothing at all. Things happen to you and you just let them happen.

I have no regrets about my life.

Life should always be like this. ... Like lingering over a good meal.

I'll say life is simpler.

Life consists of nothing more than the happiness we can get out of it.

Good digestions, the gray monotony of provincial life, and the boredom-ah the soul-destroying boredom-of long days of mild content.

I would have loved to have been two people, but I was determined not to devote my entire life to my career.

I really don't require a whole lot in life.

Your blessing in life is when you find the torture you're comfortable with.

At peace? Who but the insane would ever be at peace? What person who has enjoyed life could possibly think one is enough? Who could live even a day and not feel the sweet ache of regret?

Even though I have so many things to figure out, I'm very much at peace. I don't feel like I'm closing the chapter on this phase of life - I feel like I'm closing the book and starting a new one.

Good friends and great pets. Key to a good life!!! Who says you have to be paired up with a partner?