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Quotes About Contentment

Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poor-house.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Love the one you're with.
~ Stephen Stills
You can search high & low to find happiness on earth, yet unless you love yourself, you will never find your true belonging.
~ Leon Brown
Do not mistake desire for love. Desire leaves home in a frantic search for one gratification after another. Love is at home with itself.
~ Vernon Howard
Long tresses down to the floor can be beautiful, but learn to love what you have.
~ Anita Baker
Live well laugh often and love much.
~ Bessie Anderson Stanley
Being in love is dangerous because you talk yourself into thinking you've never had it so good.
~ David Salle
Love what you have. And then go for what you want.
~ Robin Sharma
It's just too much if you make your career everything. It is everything when you're doing it. But you have to find things you love just as much.
~ Sandra Bullock
I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.
~ Socrates
As an only child, I never felt insecure and always had total love.
~ Willard Scott
Can one desire too much of a good thing?
~ William Shakespeare
Happiness is love, nothing else.
~ Hermann Hesse
Buy things you truly love, things that are special, but not a lot of them. It's about value, not quantity.
~ Jason Wu
Basically, though, I'm just lucky to love what I do for a living.
~ John Goodman
Happiness is just how you feel when you don't feel miserable.
~ John Lennon
If you're not at peace with yourself, you can't be at peace with anyone else.
~ Joyce Meyer
I live for being with the people I love and to live as happily as possible.
~ Nastassja Kinski
I have been surfing for my whole life. I love it and I don't know that I can get much better now, I have peaked, which bothers me but I have to accept it.
~ Paul Walker
My garden will never make me famous, I'm a horticultural ignoramus.
~ Ogden Nash
You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.
~ R. K. Milholland
Go on loving what is good, simple, and ordinary.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
I like things pretty close around me. I like to know that my house is safe, that the people and animals I love are well and happy. I like to feel as peaceful as possible.
~ Anjelica Huston
And it may be that love sometimes occurs without pain or misery.
~ Annie Proulx