Contentment Quotes

"The next best thing to the enjoyment of a good time is the recollection of it."

- James Lendall Basford

"The best thing about a British winter is the cold weather, real fires, frosty mornings. I love living somewhere that has proper seasons."

- Jane Fallon

"The fire is winter's fruit."

- Arabian Proverb

"I guess there are never enough books."

- John Steinbeck

"Every Friday, I like to high five myself for getting through another week on little more than caffeine, willpower, and inappropriate humor."

- Nanea Hoffman

"I have never in my life found myself in a situation where I’ve stopped work and said, ‘Thank God it’s Friday.’ But weekends are special even if your schedule is all over the place. Something tells you the weekend has arrived and you can indulge yourself a bit."

- Helen Mirren

"Making food is a wonderful way to spend a Friday night."

- Chrissy Teigen

"You know what I want to do? Wake up one weekend and not have to go anywhere and do nothing."

- Derek Jeter

"A wild and crazy weekend involves sitting on the front porch, smoking a cigar, reading a book."

- Robert M. Gates

"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me."

- C.S. Lewis

"People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading."

- Logan Pearsall Smith

"A good book is an event in my life."

- Stendhal

"Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life."

- Fernando Pessoa

"Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book."

- Bill Watterson

"So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good."

- Helen Keller

"No person has the power to have everything they want, but it is in their power not to want what they don’t have, and to cheerfully put to good use what they do have."

- Seneca

"Curb your desire—don’t set your heart on so many things and you will get what you need."

- Epictetus

"Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it."

- Marcus Aurelius

"He needs little who desires but little."

- Cleanthes

"He has his wish, whose wish can be to have what is enough."

- Cleanthes

"He with the most who is content with the least."

- Diogenes

"If what you have seems insufficient to you, then though you possess the world, you will yet be miserable."

- Seneca

"In order to fully appreciate life, one has to indulge in a certain degree of laziness. For those who hurry through life will likely reach their destination, but at the price of overlooking myriads of things passed by on their way."

- Karel Capek

"And it's a great day to be alive. I know the sun's still shining when I close my eyes. There are some hard times in the neighborhood, but why can't every day be just this good?"

- Travis Tritt

"[This] worldly life is only amusement and diversion. And if you believe and fear Allah, He will give you your rewards and not ask you for your properties."

"What is with Allah is better than diversion and than a transaction, and Allah is the best of providers."

"Winter is a time to find beauty in the simple things, like a warm fire and a good book."

"Winter is a time to snuggle up in blankets and sip on hot cocoa."

"These are the things to live for."

"I never lost one minute of sleepin' worryin' about the way that things might have been."