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Quotes About Contentment

I reached a point in my life where I didn't really like who I was.I was married to an amazing woman. I had children, and yet there was frustration.
~ Jim Gaffigan
I don't think the jet-setting life is really for most people.
~ Jim Parsons
You're sitting there, with your wife and your baby and your smiling dog, and you're watching Real Housewives getting into fistfights on TV. And you go, 'How great is my life? I'm so happy right now.'
~ Jimmy Fallon
If you wanna be happy for the rest of your life, never make a pretty woman your wife. From my personal point of view, get an ugly girl to marry you.
~ Jimmy Soul
If you worry about every little thing you're going to have one thoroughly miserable life.
~ Joan Bauer
I think anyone who's perfectly happy isn't particularly funny.
~ Joan Rivers
I enjoy my life very much.
~ Joe Nichols
Coffee is one of the special things I have, instead of a social life.
~ Joel Achenbach
So many people are looking at what's wrong, and I try to encourage them to look at what's right in their life. A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.
~ Joel Osteen
If you want to get pleasure out of life, you must attach value to the world.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Oh, let us love our occupations, Bless the squire and his relations, Live upon our daily rations, And always know our proper stations.
~ Charles Dickens, The Chimes
It is only when one has lost all things, that one knows that one possesses it
~ Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
Happy the man, whose wish and careA few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native airIn his own ground.
~ Alexander Pope
We need but little learning to live happily.
~ Michel de Montaigne
You can't have everything, I've often noticed it.
~ Samuel Beckett, Molloy
You can have it all. Just not all at once.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content
~ Helen Keller
Blessed with so many resources within myself the world was not necessary to me. I could do very well without it.
~ Jane Austen, Emma
I suppose that I have not many months to live: but of course I know nothing about it. I may add that I am enjoying existence as much as ever, and regret nothing.
~ Henry David Thoreau
For her, every day was the same, and when each day is the same as the next, it's because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises.
~ Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Life could sometimes be grand.
~ Stephen King, Needful Things
I knew how severe I had been and how bad things had been. The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one who poverty bothers.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Many times I sit back and say, 'I can't believe that this is my life!' Other times, I feel self-satisfied. I mean, there's a lot to be proud and thankful for but, nonetheless, it's just a life!
~ Lily Tomlin
I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life.
~ Robert Baden-Powell