344 quotes found
“A book of verses underneath the boughA flask of wine, a loaf of bread and thouBeside me singing in the wildernessAnd wilderness is paradise now.”
“An ‘usband should be plain enough to sit at his settle, and simple-minded enough to accept the stew on his plate, rather than looking round ev’ry corner for a more succulent chop,’ declares Elsie.”
“Money isn’t everything.”
“Contentment isn’t something that just happens to you, Regan Lee, it’s a choice. You have to want exactly what you have.”
“She had had her momentary flowering, a year, perhaps, of wildrose beauty, and then she had suddenly swollen like a fertilized fruit and grown hard and red and coarse, and then her life had been lau...”
“What had she to wish for? Nothing, but to grow more worthy of him whose intentions and judgment had been ever so superior to her own.”
“..there are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything.”
“I think the secret to a hoppy life is a selective memory. Remember what you are most grateful for and quickly forget what your not.”
“Whenever the sadness got too much, I would hire a rickshaw and go to the Upper Bazaar. Those little rickshaw trips to the market and back, shopping for lipsticks and imitation Gucci bags and wind-c...”
“Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.”
“Humility is patient because it is neither past nor forward seeking — it is content.”
“It’s up to us to choose contentment and thankfulness now—and to stop imagining that we have to have everything perfect before we’ll be happy.”
“...I should always find, the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind; but that middle station had the fewest disasters, and was not exposed to so many vicissitudes ...”
“There was no keenness in the eyes; they seemed rather to be shedding love than making observations; they had the liquid look which tells that the mind is full of what it has to give out, rather tha...”
“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.”
“My dad’s contentment is all that matters to me. When he’s laughing, I’m laughing. When he’s happy, I’m happy. I would give up my soul for him. To me, nothing else but his happiness matters.”
“It was not desirable for the proles to have strong political feelings. All that was required of them was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make them acc...”
“It was not desirable for the paroles to have strong political feelings. All that was required of them was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make them ac...”
“I'm in a win-win playoff. " Response of a Christian dying of cancer at thirty on the prospect of miraculous healing.”
“...I hear the sounds of melting snow outside my window every night and with the first faint scent of spring, I remember life exists...”
