Quotes about Contentment
I really am pretty happy with what God gave me.
- Jennifer Aniston
I've done no injustice, and I repent of nothing. I'm too happy; and yet I'm not happy enough. My soul's bliss kills my body, but does not satisfy itself.
- Emily Bronte
Half thinking, half dreaming, happier than words can express.
- Emily Bronte
It is strange people should be so greedy when they are alone in the world!
- Emily Bronte
I've done no injustice, and I repent of nothing. I'm too happy; and yet I'm not happy enough. My souls bliss kills my body, but does not satisfy itself.
- Emily Bronte
I tell you I have nearly attained my heaven; and that of others is altogether undervalued and uncoveted by me.'' Heathcliff
- Emily Bronte
I am now quite content in my seeking pleasure in society be it country or town, a sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
- Emily Bronte
Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.
- Epictetus
It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance
- Epictetus
Freedom is secured not by the fulfilling of men's desires, but by the removal of desire.
- Epictetus
If any be unhappy, let him remember that he is unhappy by reason of himself alone. For God hath made all men to enjoy felicity and constancy of good.
- Epictetus
There is but one way to tranquility of mind and happiness, and that is to account no external things thine own, but to commit all to God.
- Epictetus