It will be your duty, and it will be your pleasure too to estimate her (as you chose her) by the qualities that she has, and not by the qualities she may not have.

I only seem negative to the fortunate. That’s because I show the less fortunate that they aren’t less fortunate after all.

In our need to be somebody, we often forget that we are somebody.

I was especially perceptive to all things beautiful that morning—raspberries in blue china bowls were enough to make the heart sing.

In a person’s lifetime there may be not more than half a dozen occasions that he can look back to in the certain knowledge that right then, at that moment, there was room for nothing...

Wanting less is probably a better blessing than having more.

The secret of contentment is never to allow yourself to want anything which reason tells you you haven’t a chance of getting.

Live near to God, and so all things will appear to you little In comparison to eternal realities.–

Follow the dreams that your heart visualizes, as what you actually see is just an illusion of temporary contentment.

Timing clicking together, finally, pieces falling into place.

A character began to speculate whether the incessant drive to have things over again might be the root of all evil.

Peace means no one is worried about anyone else’s cookie…in this moment we are all quietly content with the cookies we have.

…are you happy?””I am content.””What is the difference?””Between happiness and contentment? Ah, there you have me. It is not easy to put into words. Contentment is a state of mind and body when the two...

Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world…

Some men fish all their lives without knowing it is not really the fish they are after.

Do not think, Oh, that I were delivered from all these afflictions and troubles here in this world! If you were, then you would have more ease yourself, but this is a way of honoring...

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.