Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Harmony is the inner cadence of contentment we feel when the melody of life is in tune.

Jose Saramago

There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything.

Plutarch

Learn to be pleased with everything, with wealth so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If we will take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures. The great gifts are not got by analysis. Everything good is on the highway. The middle region of our being is the temperate zone.

Larry McMurtry

Part of the trick of being happy is a refusal to allow oneself to become too nostalgic for the heady triumphs of one's youth.

Josh Billings

Show me a thoroughly contented person, and I will show you a useless one.

Elizabeth Gilbert

The Yogic path is about disentangling the built-in glitches of the human condition, which I'm going to over-simply define here as the heartbreaking inability to sustain contentment.

John Bunyan

I am content with what I have, little be it, or much.

James Macdonald

I don't have everything I want but I have everything I need. That's contentment.

Laura Esquivel

When you're told there's no way you can marry the woman you love and your only hope of being near her is to marry her sister, wouldn't you do the same?

Rachel McAdams

I've had heartbreaking auditions where they don't even look at you. You're out before you're in.

Louisa May Alcott

I did fail, say what you will, for Jo wouldn't love me.

Britney Spears

Saying no is so heartbreaking.

Henri Barbusse

At the touch of mankind, things wear away with heartbreaking slowness.

Jack Kerouac

We tiptoed around each other like heartbreaking new friends.

Ilka Chase

All the humiliating, tragicomic, heartbreaking things happened to me in my girlhood, and nothing makes me happier than to realize I cannot possibly relive my youth.