Contentment Quotes

"Good night stars, good night air, good night noises everywhere."

- Margaret Wise Brown

"Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more."

- Charles Caleb Colton

"Smoked carp tastes just as good as smoked salmon when you ain't got no smoked salmon."

- Patrick McManus

"Don’t let yourself become so concerned with raising a good kid that you forget you already have one."

- Glennon Doyle

"Any kind of dancing is better than no dancing at all."

- Lynda Barry

"A day so happy. Fog lifted early. I worked in the garden. Hummingbirds were stopping over honeysuckle flowers. There was no thing on earth I wanted to possess. I know no one worth my envying him."

- Czesław Miłosz

"When all else fails, take a nap."

- Winnie the Pooh

"…and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?"

- Vincent van Gogh

"… and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?"

- Vincent van Gogh

"February is short and very sweet."

- Charmaine J. Forde

"Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens."

- Douglas Jerrold

"Even when petals have flaws, all you see is a beautiful flower."

- Adrianne Elizabeth

"At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"In sport, part of the game is accepting the umpire's call, no matter how hard that might be. Sometimes the calls go your way, and sometimes they don't."

- Dot Richardson

"Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like."

- Laozi

"You can't have everything. It's impossible to have everything."

- Steven Wright

"I realized that I don't have to be perfect. All I have to do is show up, and enjoy the messy, imperfect, and beautiful journey of my life."

- Kerry Washington

"Sometimes things fall apart, it's part of the journey."

- Nyesha Arrington

"True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare."

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

"Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them."

- A.A. Milne

"May I a small house and large garden have;And a few friends,And many books, both true."

- Abraham Cowley

"Just because you make a good plan, doesn't mean that's what's gonna happen."

- Taylor Swift

"Eat. Read. Sleep."