We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.

Life is supposed to be a series of peaks and valleys. The secret is to keep the valleys from becoming Grand Canyons.

There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.

A half-truth is usually less than half of that.

What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor.

Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.

Women have a favorite room, men a favorite chair.

There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.

If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.

I like the word 'indolence'. It makes my laziness seem classy.

The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created Spring.

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity.

We grow a little every time we do not take advantage of somebody's weakness.

Few things are as democratic as a snowstorm.

People who say, 'Let the chips fall where they may,' usually figure they will not be hit by a chip.

Books had instant replay long before televised sports.

A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't.

We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.

A half truth is usually less than half of that.

No symphony orchestra ever played music like a two-year-old girl laughing with a puppy.

September tries its best to have us forget summer.

It is almost impossible to watch a sunset and not dream.

I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the world I am aware that life was never perfect, never absolute. This bestows contentment, even a fearlessness.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

Happiness, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some simple issue, some single turning of the soul.

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.

The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.

Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.

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.

A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.

One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.

True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.

In contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor.

There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.

Whatever we are waiting for - peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance - it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.

The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school.

Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.

True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.

From labour health, from health contentment spring; contentment opes the source of every joy.

Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.

Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.

True humility is contentment.

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.