Edward Albee Quotes

Having my son, it's such a sense of completion as a woman; it's put me at peace.

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.

I'm content with life, and I'm finally at that place where I feel relaxed and can really enjoy what's going on around me.

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold.

That particular odyssey is now over. My mind is now at rest.

I like having peace and quiet in my life, and I am perfectly happy in my relationships.

I'm always content. I hold much more store in contentment than happiness.

I'm very relaxed. I'm very happy with my personal life.

I'm on my way to happiness, where I can find some peace and rest.

Everything was fine, and she had the rare, new sensation of being exactly where she wanted to be.

When I have come to you, at last (as I have always done), I have come to peace and happiness. I come home, now, like a tired traveller, and find such a blessed sense of rest!

Let Joy or Ease, let Affluence or Content, And the gay Conscience of a life well spent, Calm ev'ry thought, inspirit ev'ry grace, Glow in thy heart, and smile upon thy face.

What we do in our lives is what gives us contentment and serenity and makes us feel like we are doing some kind of contribution.

Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more.

Just that, is one of those uncommon moments, those times when you don't wish for something else, for even one thing to be different; when you have no other needs or worries, where your insides are calm, and everything you were ever restless about, anything that had ever given you angst, is quieted to stillness. No steel ball in your chest, no breathless fear. No blue numbness of nearly passing out, no nagging doubts of the backstage mind. All of that, forgotten. It is just rightness, so rare.

For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.

I hope that I'm always satisfied and content like I am right at this very moment.

Happy the eyes that can close

Nothing's wrong. Everything's right. Things couldn't be righter. Things could be less tired. They could be less busy. They could be less caffeinated. But they couldn't be righter.

Man's happiness really lies in contentment.

With all my work, I have not more, with my shares in the bank and the Academy, than twelve or thirteen thousand reales a year, and with all this, I am as contented as the happiest man on earth.

I am happy and content with and within myself.

There is something very satisfactory about being in the middle of something.

The thing we're all looking for is happiness, and if we achieve just a modicum of that or even a little piece of serenity even for five minutes a day, we're very lucky.