Quotes about Contentment
We display the success of what we have done by not having to do anything.
- James Carse
To subdue one's self to one's own ends might be dangerous, but to subdue one's self to other people's ends was dust and ashes. Yet there were those, still more unhappy, who envied even the ashy saltness of those dead sea apples.
- Dorothy Sayers
And what do all the great words come to in the end, but that?—I love you—I am at rest with you—I have come home.
- Dorothy Sayers
Be satisfied with what you have.
- Aesop
Every man should be content to mind his own business.
- Aesop
Oh, you aren't even ripe yet! I don't need any sour grapes.
- Aesop
People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.
- Aesop
I've always been very happy. I've always been easy going and I've always been very encouraging; it's just my personality.
- Joel Osteen
I should be in an old people's home now, counting the roses in the wallpaper. It's a good life, isn't it?
- Anne Reid
Considering all that's happened in my life, I feel like I'm a pretty levelheaded person that has remained happy and not let my shortcomings overtake the better part of me. I'm fulfilling the things I wanted to fulfill, and I'm still sane.
- Leonardo DiCaprio
Maybe we can't have everything we want in this relationship, Susanna." He bent his lips to her ears and whispered, "But we have this ball and tonight, you are my queen.
- Rachel Hauck
Can't always have life the way we want it. But there's always pizza.
- Rachel Hauck