Quiet Contentment Quotes

Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

I am happiest when I am alone.

Yet better for one of my nature to have it that way than to have life a peaceful, placid flow of quiet contentment. I must have days of rushing excitement.

Nothing is more satisfying to me than sitting in a dank room, hunched over a single flickering candle like Ebenezer Scrooge, and watching my ledgers fill themselves with ink.

The beauty we love is very silent. It smiles softly to itself, but never speaks.

All the great pleasures of life are silent.

There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.

I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.

Many a time the thing left silent makes for happiness.

But happiness is not always loud and bright and crowded. Happiness ripens like a watermelon, sweet and rosy on the inside with only a thin top layer altogether free of small black pits. And, like a watermelon, the whole thing can be covered with a plain dark rind.

How blest is he who crowns in shades like these A youth of labour with an age of ease!

Happiness is speechless.

The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.

I don't smile all the time, but I smile inside.

It's funny how people fantasise about your life sometimes. But it's so much quieter than they think.