Quotes about Contentment

Mrs. Binnie says we throw out more with a spoon than the men can be bringing in with a shovel...Binnie-like. Our men like the good living. And what if we don't be having too much money, Patsy dear? Sure and we do have lashings of things no money could be buying. There'll be enough squeezed out for Cuddles when the time comes. The Good Man Above will be seeing to that.

Yet he never seemed unhappy or unsatisfied. As long as he could plough and garden and reap he was as contented as a sunny old pasture. His black hair was but lightly frosted with silver and a ripe, serene spirit revealed itself in his rare but sweet smiles. His old fields had given him bread and delight, joy of conquest and comfort in sorrow. Anne was satisfied because he was buried near them. He might have "gone gladly" but he had lived gladly, too. The

Better a dinner of herbs where your chums are than a stalled ox in a lonely boardinghouse.

Mrs. Lynde says, 'Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall for be disappointed.' But I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.

Isn't that a view worth looking at? Nice and far from the marketplace, ain't it? No buying and selling and getting gain. You don't have to pay anything- all that sea and sky free- 'without money and without price.

God's in His heaven, alls right with the world.

Joy is everywhere. You just have to recognize it.

We people aren't too different from the cows, are we? Never content with what we have, always leaning through the fence in search of more.

With an ear open to your musical dialectic, one can be young and become old, can work and rest, be content and sad: in short, one can live.

Our sadness is not sad, but our cheap joys.

If money could buy happiness, the rich would not drown their sorrows in expensive wine.

Never regret anything that made you smile.