Quotes About Contentment

We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.

If I'm 'the kid from 'Hereditary'' for the rest of my life, I'll be satisfied.

When you're happy with yourself, you have to find another person who is happy with herself so you can share your happiness.

Hey, I'm not rich, but I'm lucky. I get to do what I want to do. That's not an easy thing to do in this country.

Hey, I'd love to have a hit single, but if that doesn't happen, I'm not going to complain.

I've never had any real big blow-ups. I go against the grain. Hey, it's life, I'm happy.

Hey, I'm comfortable with my masculinity.

I'm as old as I am, and I don't try to hide it. It's not a big deal.

I've been the person who hides behind people and lets everyone else do their thing, and I've been content there.

I don't hide. I never have. I stay at home because I like to stay at home, and at home I work.

I don't care where I sit in terms of hierarchy, box office takings, or any of that stuff.

I am very happy here at Liverpool. It's a very good club at a very high level - a big club.

The higher up I went, the less happy I was.

I am happy that my career has been successful and I want to finish at the highest level possible.

There's always talk about going out on top, unfortunately for me that means going out on a loss but it's going out at the highest level. I'm happily satisfied and it makes a lot of sense to me.

Our culture highlights the desire to always have more, even when we should be grateful for what we have.

When a man cuts himself absolutely adrift from custom, what an astonishingly light spar floats him! How few his wants are, after all!

Well, perhaps; but I begin to think there are better things than being comfortable.

Let me, if I may, be ever welcomed to my room in winter by a glowing hearth, in summer by a vase of flowers. If I may not, let me think how nice they would be and bury myself in my work. I do not think that the road to contentment lies in despising what we have not got. Let us acknowledge all good, all delight that the worlds holds, and be content without it.

Ah, let a man beware, when his wishes, fulfilled, rain down upon him, and his happiness is unbounded.

Where people know their work and do it, life has few blank spaces for boredom and they are seldom to be pitied. Where people have not yet found their work, they may be more pitied than those that beg their bread. When a man knows his work and will not do it, pity him more than one who is to be hanged tomorrow.

It is a great privilege to be poor, Peter. You must not mistake, however, and imagine it a virtue; it is but a privilege, and one also that may be terribly misused.

Then first I knew the delight of being lowly; of saying to myself, I am what I am, nothing more.

It was evening. The sun was below the horizon; but his rosy beams yet illuminated a feathery cloud, that floated high above the world. I arose, I reached the cloud; and, throwing myself upon it, floated with it in sight of the sinking sun. He sank, and the cloud grew gray; but the grayness touched not my heart. It carried its rose-hue within; for now I could love without needing to be loved again.