Quotes About Contentment

Most of all, I miss that feeling when you go to sleep at night and when you wake up in the morning. It's that feeling that everything is all rightin the world. You know, that amazing feeling that you're whole, that you've got everything you want, that you aren't missing anything. Sometimes when I wake up, I get it for just a moment. It lasts a few seconds, but then I remember what happened, and how nothing has been the same since

For the first time in forever, he'll wake up to a new beagle's bark every motning, with a feeling that the world is all right and everyone he cares about is safe and sound

We chase wild dreams and long for all that eludes us, when the greatest joys are within our grasp, if we can only recognize them.

If there are finer beings than German short hairs, I don't know what they are. In their eyes is peace.

Happiness is being grateful for what you have and having an attitude of gratitude instead of an attitude of envy.

You have to know where you belong, or you'll be angry and frustrated.

I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book.

Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.

Soy tan feliz, que a veces paréceme que vivo suspendida en el aire, que mis pies no tocan la tierra, que huelo la eternidad y respiro el airecillo que sopla más allá del sol. No duermo. ¡Ni qué falta me hace dormir!

Por qué lo que no se tiene se desea, y lo que se tiene se desprecia?

Se aman por rutina, y apenas se dan cuenta de su felicidad

pues le pertenecía como una petaca, un mueble o una prenda de ropa, sin que nadie se la pudiera disputar; ¡y ella parecía tan resignada a ser petaca, y siempre petaca!

tenía la actitud relajada y tranquila de algunos hombres que viven en paz consigo mismos y con el mundo.

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He who is content. Who is that? Nobody

If a man could have just half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things

Our necessities never equal our wants

A little house well filled, a little field well tilled, and a little wife well willed, are great riches.

When men are employed, they are best contented; for on the days they worked they were good-natured and cheerful, and, with the consciousness of having done a good day's work, they spent the evening jollily; but on our idle days they were mutinous and quarrelsome.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

Happiness consists more in conveniences of pleasure that occur everyday than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom.

Avarice and happiness never saw each other, how then should they become acquainted.

Poor man, said I, you pay too much for your whistle.

Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one. If it satisfies one want, it doubles and trebles that want another way. That was a true proverb of the wise man, rely upon it; "Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith."