Quotes About Contentment

Marriage is like restaurant; hardly have you been served that you're looking at the neighbour's plate!

How can you stay worried when someone gives you warm chocolate chip cookies?

Money didn't buy happiness, but it did let me have pretty things.

Requiescat come cazzo gli pare. Amen!

The rest of us can find happiness in misery.

Just want to be a footnote in someone else's happiness.

A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.

A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.

Peace, it's wonderful.

I was very happy being a secretary. I loved working for the government. I was very happy with my life.

This is my home now. I like it. Nothing happens here. I know what to expect from one day to the next. I can control everything, and I can eat. I like eating.

For who ever lived totally as they wanted to; who ever, if they have time to think about it, dies wholly satisfied? And those who remain know it.

Si yo tuviera hambre, no pediría un pan. Pediría medio pan y un libro.

Está bien que una casada quiera tener hijos, pero si no los tiene, por qué hace necesidad de ello. Lo importante de este mundo es dejarse llevar por los años... que así, tendrás felicidad.

En la tierra encuentro una profunda sugestión de pobreza. Y amo la pobreza por sobre todas las cosas. No la pobreza sórdida y hambrienta, sino la pobreza bienaventurada, simple, humilde, como el pan moreno.

Beauty can make you powerful in a way that isn't good for you. Being OK is better for the person I have become.

Mi casa era como un mar de aguas verdosas que nunca tenían grandes cóleras. Nosotros navegábamos por ellas como piratas pobres que tienen poco ánimo para conquistar ningún botín.

Being rich is fine, and at the very least is better than being poor. But it shouldn't be the be-all and end-all of your life, or anyone's life.

You see, when you're young and foolish it doesn't matter where you may be, you always think that you'll be happier somewhere else.

C'è in tutti noi un qualcosa che somiglia alla letizia.

C'è in tutti noi qualcosa che assomiglia alla letizia.

I have the impression that we are the last people on Earth. - It wouldn't be so bad. We would have all the wine of the world to ourselves.

I know this sounds generic, but I'm so happy to be home with my husband, my family, and my dog.

My old man used to say you could be dollar-poor but emotionally rich if you had one good friend.