Quotes about Contentment

God can add nothing to the happiness of those who love, except to give them endless duration.

but the cat rejoices even over a lean mouse.

And if you couldn't be loved, the next best thing was to be let alone.

Because I'm happy that you exist at all, Elisabeth. Perhaps I love you. Perhaps I love you very much. But probably just for this reason it would be better if we remain as we are. I think a man and a woman love each other all the more when they don't live together and when they know about each other only that they exist, and when they are grateful to each other for the fact that they exist and that they know they exist. And that alone is enough for their happiness.

La felicidad es el deseo de repetir.

Even if I live not in a big city, even if I detest to go to parties, I love street fairs and long conversations with people in the countryside.

He didn't take her breath away. Maybe the opposite. But that was okay-that was really good, actually, to be near someone who filled your lungs with air.

Could it be that to truly love a thing is not to desire it, but to desire happiness for it?

Don't worry about what you don't have if you do have faith!

Gaiety alone, as it were, is the hard cash of happiness; everything else is just a promissory note.

Miss Mills replied, on general principles, that the Cottage of content was better than the Palace of cold splendour, and that where love was, all was.

Naught is possessed, neither gold, nor land nor love, nor life, nor peace, nor even sorrow nor death, nor yet salvation. Say of nothing: It is mine. Say only: It is with me.