Quotes About Contentment

Everything takes place at a right time. It's your anxiety to achieve everything before time or grab things more than you required, add misery to your life.

She wasted all her school time wanting to be the age she is now, and she'll waste all the rest of her life trying to stay that age.

Once upon a time, time was in the hands of the poor. Those who sensibly, reasonably, and firmly held it. Extravagance is only today and tomorrow.

Enjoy the present hour Be thankful for the past And neither fear nor wish Th' approaches of the last.

People don't realize the great happiness there is in living to be very old and together all the time.

If I'm not working, I have home time with my family, and if I spend that stressing what's going to happen next, then it's a waste. I have a lot to be thankful for.

Age focuses you. You are much better concentrated. There's more time when you travel less, don't do book tours, avoid interviews or public appearances. You walk the dogs, fish, hunt, cook and write.

Most of the time, we keep looking outside and feeling sad about what others have. Those are mere excuses.

The thought of being alone when time goes on is a little bit scary sometimes, but not really.

Since I can't be with you right now I will have to be content just dreaming about when we will be together again.

All the wealth in the world cannot be compared with the happiness of living together happily united.

I suppose all of my films have a common theme. If I think about it, though, the only theme I can think of is really a question: Why can't people be happier together?

For a moment, Percy actually remembered what it was like to be happy. He had an amazing girlfriend. They could have a future together.

Do all things without grumbling. Why? You have a sovereign God who is on your side, who works everything together for your good.

Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.

I don't want to own anything until I find a place where me and things go together. I'm not sure where that is but I know what it is like. It's like Tiffany's.

Better to be quirky alone than unhappy together.

I am the first to admit my iPad is the coolest thing in the world, but when we can be in a room together and really connect, or leave the gadgets home and go for a hike, then I'm happy.

Not Carnegie, Vanderbilt, and Astor together could have raised money enough to buy a quarter share in my little dogs.

Better to be happy with the cod fish in your plate now, than to linger for the taste of a tuna that is still swimming in the sea.

It is hard for me to believe that any husband and wife are really happy together. And to have thee say you are is an unspeakable comfort.

If the entire world sought to make itself worthy of happiness rather than make itself happy, then the entire world would be happy.

The men of the clique live together because they have the same kind of soul, and their narrowness is a narrowness of spiritual coherence and contentment, like that which exists in hell . . .

He watched her go, wondering if life ever offered happiness in more than very small, very brief doses. T