Quotes About Contentment

Each time you set and reach a goal, you'll discover a sense of contentment that breeds a stronger sense of direction and joy.

Enjoy that special place.

You ask of my companions. Hills, sir, and the sundown, and a dog as large as myself that my father bought me. They are better than human beings, because they know but do not tell.

That, right now, is enough.

The mere sense of living is joy enough.

How happy is the little stone That rambles in the road alone, And doesn't care about careers, And exigencies never fears; Whose coat of elemental brown A passing universe put on; And independent as the sun, Associates or glows alone, Fulfilling absolute decree In casual simplicity.

Thirty morning gowns!" whispered Sarah, as they went down stairs. "The idea of a new gown every day for a month. Now I call that real happiness.

God gave a Loaf to every Bird—But just a Crumb—to Me—

My wants are simple: a job that I like and a guy whom I love.

Happiness is the best revenge, you know? Just be happy. It's a choice.

I'm a person that doesn't have that many goals or plans. I feel like I'm the wind and I blow through life it's whatever comes to me. I very much respect nature. Whatever happens to me, I'm happy and I embrace it.

I cannot be content with less than Heaven.

Bao gi? chúng ta còn là nô l? c?a d?c v?ng, chúng ta không sao ??t ???c h?nh phúc. N?u ??t ???c l?i s? m?t ?i, càng có nhi?u càng lo s? nhi?u, có ?úng th? không? Tóm l?i, mu?n có h?nh phúc th?t s?, ph?i v??t lên kh?i s? hãi và ham mu?n.

ta v?n làm th?? Có bao gi? chúng ta ??t câu h?i, t?i sao chúng ta l?i làm th? không? Lòng ta còn ham ti?n b?c, danh v?ng, ??a v?, s?c kh?e, và ch? c?u bình an cho chính mình thôi, nên ch?ng bao gi? th?a mãn.

Who does not know that without women we can feel no content or satisfaction throughout this life of ours, which but for them would be rude and devoid of all sweetness and more savage than that of wild beasts? Who does not know that women alone banish from our hearts all vile and base thoughts, vexations, miseries, and those turbid melancholies that so often are their fellows?

If, then, we cannot attain to a scheme of belief which, whatever be its shortcomings, is good (so far as it goes) for all time, we must be content with something less.

In the meanwhile we must, I fear, suffer under a system of beliefs which is far short of rational perfection. But we need not acquiesce, and we should not be contented. Whether this state of affairs will ever be cured by the sudden flash of some great philosophic discovery is another matter.

Moderation is the key-note of lasting enjoyment.

Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.

To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.

Always leave something to wish for otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.

The husband who leaves nothing to desire is a lost man.

If there are differences between one moment of pleasure and another, a man can always be happy with the same woman.

Felix's wife began to find monotony in an Eden so well arranged; the perfect happiness which the first woman found in her terrestrial paradise gave her at length a sort of nausea of sweet things, and made the countess wish, like Rivarol reading Florian, for a wolf in the fold. Such, judging by the history of ages, appears to be the meaning of that emblematic serpent to which Eve listened, in all probability, out of ennui.