Quotes About Contentment

You have every right to a beautiful life.

Embracing and being thankful for the family and friends I do have instead of yearning for the family I cannot know or have has helped erase the hollowness I felt when I first found out. When I consider my good health, sense of humor, adventurous side, creative gifts and even my quirky phobias, I am grateful that the two people responsible for creating me existed." (Maddie Saunders, the heroine)

Maybe being numb to the mediocrity of one's life is the price people pay for true happiness. Maybe bliss blinds a person to the fact that they could be something more than normal. Maybe if everyone grew up in happy houses with happy lives void of pain, we'd still be living in caves and beating animals to death with a club to eat.

For, so long as there are interesting books to read, it seems to me that neither I nor anyone else, for that matter, need be unhappy.

Hon hade lärt sig älska kärleken med all dess plåga, dess tårar, dess längtan . - Bättre sorgsen med den än glad utan den, sade hon.

If you have one teapot And can brew your tea in it That will do quite well. How much does he lack himself Who must have a lot of things?

The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.

Do the best you can . . . enjoy the present . . . rest satisfied with what you have.

To greed, all nature is insufficient.

Those whom fortune has never favored are more joyful than those whom she has deserted.

Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.

Life, if well lived, is long enough.

There is a noble manner of being poor and who does not know it will never be rich.

What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.

Tulip looks beautiful. More importantly, she looks happy! And she's living her life as she chooses.

Quand on n'a pas ce que l'on aime, faut aimer ce que l'on a.

I think that focusing on the money, on the business, is not enough.

Stop thinking. I've stopped some 15 years ago. Otherwise, if you will be thinking you won't want to live. Everyone who thinks is unhappy.

What can I do? I have no talents. I refuse to cripple myself for ninety roubles... Well, all right, so I'll eat two thousand hamburgers in my lifetime. Wear out twenty-five dark-grey suits. Leaf through seven hundred issues of the local newspaper. And die without scratching the earth's surface. Is that it? ... I'd rather live only a minute, but live it right! (Fred Kolesnikov)

I had never felt such happiness, not with one man or two or three, never felt this feeling before...this feeling of...completeness? Yes, that was it, completeness! I simply didn't need anyone else.

I get the same buzz cleaning up the yard as Leo Tolstoy did from scything hay.

He enjoyed life for its own sake, not for material possessions. Life was the exact opposite of money, which in itself meant nothing.

Meil? akla, jeigu tu užsimerki. Meil? nekantri, ji laukia džiaugsmo, o ne laim?s.

You always hear the phrase, money doesn't buy you happiness. But I always in the back of my mind figured a lot of money will buy you a little bit of happiness. But it's not really true. I got a new car because the old one's lease expired.