Quotes about Contentment
All you need is love... and a good cup of coffee.
- Anonymous
Many a family, in order to make a 'proper showing,' will commit itself for a larger and more expensive house than is needed, in an expensive neighborhood. Almost everyone would, it seems, like to keep up with the Joneses.
- Ezra Taft Benson
The proud man counts his newspaper clippings, the humble man his blessings.
- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
I think that once you've had a few No. 1s in your career that you've kind of proven yourself, and I don't feel the need to prove anything anymore.
- Lady Gaga
The good and wise lead quite lives
- Euripides
There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course; a quiet conscience.
- Euripides
And lastly from that period I remember riding in a taxi one afternoon between very tall buildings under a mauve and rosy sky; I began to bawl because I had everything I wanted and knew I would never be so happy again.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
I don't care about truth. I want some happiness.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
If you're in love it ought to make you happy. You ought to laugh.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
Most of us are content to exist and breed and fight for the right to do both, and the dominant idea, the foredoomed attest to control one's destiny, is reserved for the fortunate or unfortunate few.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
I'm more beautiful than anybody else," she said brokenly, "why can't I be happy?
- F Scott Fitzgerald
Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy--one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link between past and future pleasure but turn out to have been the pleasure itself.
- F Scott Fitzgerald