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Quotes About Contentment

People don't know the consolations of being unsuccessful ... If I had been successful I should have had no peace or time.
~ Rumer Godden
I sat up, sliding them off, and the quiet around me did not, for once, seem empty and vast. Instead, for the first time in a while, it felt like it already was full.
~ Sarah Dessen
When I'm not working on the ground, spending time with my husband and daughter puts me at ease.
~ Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
What is happy? I think happy's in the moment. I don't think everybody can be happy all the time.
~ Shelby Lynne
I saw you happy. Happier than you've been in a long time. With someone you like that much, the lows are as low as the highs are high.
~ Simone Elkeles
After winning Ascot's Queen Alexandra Stakes on Brown Jack- If you'd been on your honeymoon, you couldn't have had a happier time.
~ Steve Donoghue
I want to please every woman, every time.
~ Stuart Rose
Whatever time we have," he said, "it will be time enough.
~ Susanna Kearsley
The one who actually succeeds in making himself believe that he is having a good time is the man of splendid physical health.
~ Swami Vivekananda
People ask me all the time would I like to still be playing? No. I'm glad I played when I played.
~ Terry Bradshaw
People are content to wait a long time for salvation, but prefer dinner to turn up inside an hour.
~ Terry Pratchett
Let others probe the mystery if they can.Time-harried prisoners of Shall and Will -The right thing happens to the happy man.
~ Theodore Roethke
I'm probably satisfied with my career 80 percent of the time
~ Tom Berenger
I don't spend time wondering what might be next; I just focus on trying to savor every day.
~ Trisha Yearwood
Cause there was a time when all I did was wish You'd tell me this was love. It's not the way I hoped Or how I planned But somehow it's enough.
~ Vanessa L. Williams
It took me a long time to find my voice as a singer, and I'm happy that I did.
~ Wes Borland
I never really spent time being jealous. Maybe I should have.
~ Will Arnett
Oh, bring again my heart's content, Thou Spirit of the Summer-time!
~ William Allingham
There's a pretty woman for ever lucky man in the world: every man in the world is a lucky man if he only knew it, so why waste time?
~ William Saroyan
Your mid-thirties is a good time because you know a fair amount, you have some self-control.
~ Zadie Smith
The happiest folk are those that are busy, for their minds are starved of time to seek out woe.
~ Kate Morton
Twenty-four hours is never enough for a busy person and way too much for somebody with nothing to do.
~ Kathie Lee Gifford
I suppose if I had my time again I would refuse it and stay at Fulham because I thoroughly enjoyed my time there, and secondly I would have taken it on my own terms.
~ Kevin Keegan
I don't have to be glamorous all the time.
~ Kimberly Elise