Quotes about Contentment, page 136

I was born when you kissed me. I died when you left me. I lived a few weeks while you loved me.

Quote by Humphrey Bogart about contentment

Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.

Quote by Lewis Carroll about contentment

Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.

Quote by Molière about contentment

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him discover it in himself.

Quote by Galileo Galilei about contentment

There is only one true thing: instantly paint what you see. When you've got it, you've got it. When you haven't, you begin again. All the rest is humbug.

Quote by Edouard Manet about contentment

You can do anything in this world if you are prepares to take the consequences.

Quote by William Somerset Maugham about contentment

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.

Quote by William Somerset Maugham about contentment

If you're not ready for everything, you're not ready for anything.

Quote by Paul Auster about contentment

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Quote by Jacques Prévert about contentment

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Quote by Jacques Prévert about contentment

In this world, you must be a bit too kind in order to be kind enough.

Quote by Pierre de Marivaux about contentment

Never rise to speak till you have something to say; and when you have said it, cease.

Quote by John Witherspoon about contentment

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

Quote by Alfred Adler about contentment

The black serpent, leaving his filthy cave, Has finally suffered by your hand so sure and brave The end of its venomous existence so despised! From the tiger's guts, from his homicidal teeth You came and drew what he'd devoured from...

Quote by Joseph Chénier about contentment

Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose.

Quote by George Meredith about contentment

You can point out to people how to make what they do better, but you can't teach somebody how to be a great writer, just like you can't teach somebody how to be a fast runner. You can work on their technique, but either they're fast or they're...

Quote by Richard Price about contentment

You, O Queen, are the fairest here, But Snow White, who has gone to stay With the seven dwarfs far, far away, Is a thousand times more fair. Snow White

Quote by Wilhelm Grimm about contentment

If you see a philosopher determining all things by means of right reason, him you shall reverence: he is a heavenly being and not of this earth.

Quote by Giovanni Pico della Mirandola about contentment

Luckless is the country in which the symbols of procreation are the objects of shame, while the agents of destruction are honored! And yet you call that member your pudendum, or shameful part, as if there were anything more glorious than creating...

Quote by Hector Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac about contentment

If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.

Quote by Luther Burbank about contentment