#contentment

Some of the freckles I once loved are now closer to liver spots. But it’s still the eyes we look at, isn’t it? That’s where we found the other person, and find them still. ↗

— Julian Barnes

#contentment #familiarity #habit #long-term-relationships #love

If all I had was all that money could buy, I'd be bankrupt!" EL ↗

— Evinda Lepins

#contentment #money #money

No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself ↗

— Plato

#music #wealth #music

Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment! ↗

— Ellis Peters

#nature #wonder #nature

he who is greedy is always in want ↗

— Horace

#greed #satisfaction #wisdom #satisfaction

Be not wishing and pining, but thankfully content.  For it is a short bridge between wanting and regret." - from "Dimpellumpzki ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#contentment #gratefulness #longing #pine #pining

I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more. ↗

— Henry Fielding

#inner-peace #inner-peace

Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#chronic #contentment #drunkenness #good #humor

True humility is contentment. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#humility #true

As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#contentment #evening #i #i can #i do