Quotes About Contentment

Lord, keep us from speaking of love while hoarding the gifts you have given us. Make us full of discontent as long as there are brothers and sisters living and dying in hunger. Amen.

I've been told that people in the army do more by 7:00 am than I do in an entire day But if I wake at 6:59 am and turn to you to trace the outline of your lips with mine I will have done enough and killed no one in the process.

Ubi nihil vales, ibi nihil velis: where you are worth nothing, there you should want nothing

A happy heart comes first, then the happy face.

I like being at home and cooking.

Ruling the world is overrated. It would really cut into your leisure time.

I want to be happy. I used to want Mr. Darcy, laugh at me if you want, or the idea of him. Someone who made me feel all the time like I felt when I watched those movies.

My heart's so light it floats and carries me so my feet don't walk. I sing all day and I don't mind the washing, and that's how I know I'm in love. Completely smitten with My Lord the cat.

Homemaking is not something that stands in the way of our deeper fulfillment; it becomes the ground that feeds it.

Yesterday that new lipstick made me very happy," I tell the counselor. "But today, it just doesn't seem like enough.

As long as you're happy, who cares what everybody else is doing?

Reading next to you is one of my favorite things.

I have heard from Pramod that you do not hanker after fame. The truth is all you seek. Ha, ha!

A lifetime of happiness: No man alive could bear it: It would be hell on earth. —George Bernard Shaw

When we appreciate what we have, and what we have accomplished, and then share our talents with others, we can celebrate life each day rather than dwell over how things "used to be.

Don't aim for riches, child. Aim for happiness." -Mrs. Mills

Are you as happy as you thought you'd be , I ask. Yes. And his smile is touchingly pleased. I thought you'd look happier , I say, but after all, when I am looking at you, you're with me!

My dear, you cannot make someone else happy. The other person must find happiness in themselves.

By engaging in a delusive quest for happiness, we bring only suffering upon ourselves. In our frantic search for something to quench our thirst, we overlook the water all around us and drive ourselves into exile from our own lives.

Perhaps I will someday. When there is nothing left in my own world that pleases me.' 'Then you will never visit, for you are a girl who will always find pleasure in something.

This identity has a fuzzy-socks basket, a fire in the fireplace, dogs snoring on the couch. A library full of books to read and to look at.

My definition of love is being full. Complete. It makes everything lighter. Beauty is something you see. Love is something you feel.

The people who live happily ever after - they don't appear in the history books. They just fade away. I reckon that's what happiness is. Pauline Foster - " The Ballad of Tom Dooley ", Sharyn McCrumb, p. 271

Maybe heaven is getting to live forever in one really wonderful moment....I've made a point of collecting happy moments, ones I might like to live in for all time.