Quotes of Satisfaction - somelinesforyou

“ For I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. ”

- Bible

“ But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads. ”

- Albert Camus

“ Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with. ”

- Mark Twain

“ There is only one happiness in life — to love and to be loved. ”

- George Sand

“ Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition. ”

- Alexander Smith

“ Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable. ”

- Clare Boothe Luce

“ Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose. ”

- William Cowper

“ Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations. ”

- Jane Austen

“ Happiness is not in our circumstances, but in ourselves. It is not something we see, like a rainbow, or feel, like the heat of a fire. Happiness is something we are. ”

- John B. Sheerin

“ Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment. ”

- Dag Hammarskjold

“ The secret of happiness is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm, always lucid, always willing "to be joined to the universe without being more conscious of it than an idiot," to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore. ”

- Cyril Connolly

“ Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Variety alone gives joy; The sweetest meats the soonest cloy. ”

- Matthew

“ I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late. ”

- Max Kauffman

“ If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time. ”

- Josh Billings

“ Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. ”

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

“ When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery. ”

- Maxim Gorky

“ There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again! ”

- Robert Gilfillan

“ Some pursue happiness - others create it. ”

- Unknown

“ I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time. ”

- Hilaire Belloc

“ The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. ”

- Allan K. Chalmers

“ Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose. - What Is Literature? ”

- Charles Du Bos

“ The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident. ”

- Charles Lamb

“ The heart knoweth his own bitterness. ”

- Bible

“ Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys. ”

- Andre Gide

“ It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty an' wealth have both failed. ”

- Kin Hubbard

“ Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another. ”

- Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz
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