Quotes About Contentment

You were right when you said that love shouldn't have to be a battlefield. When it's with the right person, I've seen love be easy. Sweet. And perfect.

Home, to many of the people I interviewed, is a good, comfortable feeling about the place where they live, and a sense that their place is going to be theirs for a while....Home is any place, any experience that feeds his soul "in some positive way".

Nothing is worthwhile on this unhappy earth except the fulfilment of a man's desire.

The object of a religion or a philosophy is not to make men wealthy or powerful, but to make them, in the last issue, happy: that is, to fulfil their being.

I love solitude, but I prize it most when plenty of company is available.

You have a talent, and that's more than enough to bring you happiness.

What you've made here is a complete neighborhood." Pauline mused. "You might live in it without ever needing to leave it for anything, couldn't you?

Happiness doesn't result from what we get, but from what we give.

You only have the right to pursue happiness; you have to catch it yourself.

Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back.

The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.

True happiness Consists not in the multitude of friends, But in the worth and choice.

I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t'inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death With holy Paul; lest it be thought the breath Of discontent; or that these prayers be For weariness of life, not love of thee.

This is wonderful, the life I lead here, no matter if it's mine.

The less you know, the more soundly you sleep.

Do you know what the luckiest thing is?' 'No.' 'It is to be at home everywhere.

When we've been travelling around I've often thought: Oh, this would be a good place to be, and that would be an excellent place to live. And yet, after I've seen everything I've decided that home, wherever that may be, is the place for feelings of peace. And if I can be at peace with myself then that is the most important thing. I think travelling teaches one that.

Besides, you are seeking something you have already found but don't knoit. Such are the causes of unhappiness.

Besides, you are seeking something you have already found, but don't know it. Such are the causes of unhappiness.

I was fine with the choice.

Like my father, I grew distracted and unhappy when I could not usefully occupy my time.

The closer I got to my finish line, that rubbley (ph) rocky coast of Ross Island, the more I started to realize that the biggest lesson that this very long, very-hard walk might be teaching me is that happiness is not a finish line and that if we can't feel content on our journeys amidst the mess and the striving that we all inhabit - the open loops, the half-finished to-do lists, the could-do-better-next-times - then we might never feel it.

So what do you need me to do?' 'For now, absolutely nothing.' 'I think I can manage that. For centuries we Woosters have done absolutely nothing under much more trying conditions.

Like the Bible, Aristotle didn't define happiness as temporary joy. He saw happiness in a life well-lived.