Contentment Quotes

"Take the time to enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things."

- Robert Brault

"In November, the smell of food is different. It is an orange smell. A squash and pumpkin smell. It tastes like cinnamon and can fill up a house in the morning, can pull everyone from bed in a fog."

- Cynthia Rylant

"I like my money where I can see it: hanging in my closet."

- Carrie Bradshaw

"Instant gratification takes too long."

- Carrie Fisher

"Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body."

- George Carlin

"All the things I like to do are either immoral, illegal, or fattening."

- Alexander Woollcott

"For, in the end, it is impossible to have a great life unless it is a meaningful life. And it is very difficult to have a meaningful life without meaningful work."

- James C. Collins

"People waste their time pondering whether a glass is half empty or half full. Me, I just drink whatever's in the glass."

- Sophia Petrillo

"My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best."

- Winston S. Churchill

"I generally avoid temptation, unless I can't resist it."

- Mae West

"I always cook with wine. Sometimes, I even add it to the food."

- W.C. Fields

"Housework can't kill you, but why take the chance?"

- Phyllis Diller

"I hate housework. You make the beds, you wash the dishes and six months later you have to start all over again."

- Joan Rivers

"Housekeeping is like being caught in a revolving door."

- Marcelene Cox

"I just want to lie on the beach and eat hot dogs. That's all I've ever wanted."

- Kevin Malone

"I wish to spend a lifetime near a lighthouse where loneliness will be the glimmer of luminous prancing upon ocean waves… rising and falling only for my breathing."

- Munia Khan

"Choose a job that you like, and you will never have to work a day in your life."

- Confucius

"A full belly is little worth where the mind is starved."

- Mark Twain

"Life is short, and it’s up to you to make it sweet."

- Sadie Delany

"At the end of the day, none of it matters but your own joy, your own spiritual journey that you go on, God, your loved ones, your friends, your animals. These are the things you've got to cherish and love and embrace."

- Christina Applegate

"My scars? I barely see them. I feel whole; I really do. Because every day, I get to say, 'There’s no cancer.' I’m healthy, and that’s beautiful."

- Wanda Sykes

"The goal is to live a full, productive life even with all that ambiguity. No matter what happens, whether the cancer never flares up again or whether you die, the important thing is that the days that you have had you will have lived."

- Gilda Radner

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

- C.S. Lewis

"Hello, November! Let the cozy evenings begin."

"November: The month of cozy moments and thankful hearts."

"I need a six-month vacation twice a year."

"It might be easy to run away to a monastery, away from the commercialization, the hectic hustle, the demanding family responsibilities of Christmas-time. Then we would have a holy Christmas."

"The LORD is my shepherd, I lack nothing. He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters, he refreshes my soul."

"To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it’s taken for granted."

"Take vacations, go as many places as you can. You can always make money, but you can’t always make memories."