Happy is still Happy, with or without the Ever After.

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend.

Some of the freckles I once loved are now closer to liver spots. But it’s still the eyes we look at, isn’t it? That’s where we found the other person, and find them still.

Be not wishing and pining but thankfully content. For it is a short bridge between wanting and regret.”- from “Dimpellumpzki

Search for contentment in each person you meet.

Give a bull grass, sweet water and a willing heifer and he is happy. But a man is never content. If no gadflies of worry exist he will invent them.

In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record.

London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful. Always it believes that something good is about to come off, and it must hurry to meet it.

[M]ost people go through life a wee bit disappointed in themselves. I think we all keep a memory of a moment when we missed someone or something, when we could have gone down another path,...

I love everything that makes up a milieu, the rolling of the carriages and the noise of the workmen in Paris, the cries of a thousand birds in the country, the movement of the ships...

Part of the trick of being happy is a refusal to allow oneself to become too nostalgic for the heady triumphs of one’s youth.

If you are not content today, there is nothing you can buy tomorrow to change that.

[F]or just one second, look at your life and see how perfect it is. Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is...

No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself

That very breath wherewith they utter their complaints is a blessing and a fundamental one too for if God would withdraw that they were incapable of whatsoever else either have or desire.

Americans were convinced in their own minds that they were very miserable, and those who think so are so. There is nothing so easy as to persuade people that they are badly governed. Take happy...

Appreciating what I have is my medicine.

Without inner-peace and contentment, success will ultimately destroy you.

Newspapers provided a common culture of aspiration.

he who is greedy is always in want

For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain.

A bowl of diligence and perseverance, a cup of faith and a pinch of inspiration mixed with a spoon of contentment are the ingredients of a delicious success. Cook yours well.

I have come to feel that the essence of life is not what it so often seems to be – working to have, working to get, working to possess. It’s about becoming. It’s about what’s...

It was one of those happy days that God grants us sometimes on earth to give us an idea of the bliss of heaven.

The true measure of your success is the degree to which within you are truly content – and the depth to which others hold you with real love and respect

Recently I keep thinking that this isn’t about the survival of a species. It’s about why we’re never satisfied with what we need, why we always take a bit more.

I don’t need to go to heaven or hell. I have been both places and always wanted more. I will settle for somewhere in between, so eternity never becomes dull and every miracle is something...

He turned his dark eyes on the girl whom he had dreamed of so often over the previous months. Beside him, at that very moment of existence, at the heart of torrential downpour, she was...

You might as well be happy in WHO you’re, WHAT you have and WHERE you live. Joy and contentment is not found in possessions, people, places or professions. Christ alone is our sufficiency, and Christ...

‎I’m in a win-win playoff. ” Response of a Christian dying of cancer at thirty on the prospect of miraculous healing.

Ultimate prosperity is one’s value within. It takes a man of depth, morality, and charm to be envied yet without a sign of wealth or romance. A passion to prove such inner worth is his...

I should be contentto look at a mountainfor what it isand not as a comment on my life.

So be satisfied and quiet, be contented with your contentment. I lack certain things that others have, but blessed be God, I have a contented heart which others have not.

Don’t ignore the love you DO have in your life by focusing on the love you DON’T.

Because one believes in oneself, one doesn’t try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn’t need others’ approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.

Mama told me to make a special point to remember the best times of my life. There are so many hard things to live through, and latching on to the good things will give you...

Well, ‘we’ are certainly happy to hear that. Oh, and I’m also happy to watch our darling little love child dragon while you’re in St. Louis.”I grinned back.

Be like the flower, content with its nature.

Progress and healing involves seeing every person as not so different from ourselves.

I mean a man whose hopes and aims may sometimes lie (as most men’s sometimes do, I dare say) above the ordinary level, but to whom the ordinary level will be high enough after all...

The key to contentment was to never ask why; she had learned that long ago.

Sharing your life with someone will have much more meaning coming from a place of independence rather than co-dependence.

Just this once, in the very heart of the busiest of cities, everyone was perfectly content not to move and hardly to breathe. And for those few minutes, while the song lasted, Times Square was...

It occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because the is always the thought that everything might be done better and again

A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then...

Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age. But to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden.

Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.

Contentment comes from wanting what we need, not needing what we want.

People are complaining of having rags and not riches, but I find it a blessing just to have rags, to wipe away the dirt and dust that may come in the course of life.