Quotes About Contentment

Brighton is like Bristol-on-sea. It's for people who are happy with where they've got to in life and don't want to go any further.

Happiness is the absence of suffering. I think it's an interesting way of looking at it. I think the absence of suffering exists very rarely in the world we live in.

Books are my friends, where it's okay to be silent, where you're not a freak if you don't want to get drunk, peel out in the parking lot, tip cows.

And I realized that, for this night at least, I didn't much care if anyone was the marrying kind or not - not even me. Who could tell? We none of us knew for sure WHAT kind we were, exactly, but as long as were the kind that could sit around eating together and having a lovely time, that was enough.

Don't you love it when the ending makes you smile?

My greatest discovery has been my love of boredom and to get fun out of it.

It's never been my purpose to become an American icon, or more famous or richer.

I kind of imagine myself at eighty, a cat lady.

Happy are those who choose, those who accept being chosen, the handsome heroes, the handsome saints, the perfect escapists.

Hablar de despertarse cuando por fin se está tan bien así dormido.

Al llegar al corazón el tiempo no puede ya medirse, y en la infinita rosa violeta del centro el cronopio encuentra un gran contento...

y al final el ridículo lo he hecho yo porque nada hay más lamentable que un hombre esforzándose por mover a otro que está muy bien como está, que se siente perfectamente en la posición que le da la gana.

feliz, ergo sin futuro)

la sed está antes que la saciedad y vale mucho más.

Estábamos bien, y poco a poco empezábamos a no pensar. Se puede vivir sin pensar.

No sé hablar de la felicidad pero eso no quiere decir que no la haya tenido.

Con tan poca cosa puede un hombre ser feliz», pensó. «Ni siquiera un beso. Con tan poco. La taza de té preparada con su mínima liturgia, un insecto dormido sobre un libro, un perfume viejo. Sí, casi la nada…»

y, como a menudo pensaba, su verdadera sabiduría había consistido en haber conducido su existencia por los senderos de la modestia, la moderación y la mediocridad.

I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.

Solitude should not be a burden, something that is suffered, that is borne involuntarily, or in which refuge is taken by force of circumstances, but rather, a natural, simple, and free disposition. In a text [Suttanip?ta] we read: 'Solitude is called wisdom, he who is alone will find that he is happy'.

We have so much to be thankful for when we remember our reasons for gratitude—the blessings we may take for granted, the blessings we would miss bitterly if they vanished.

When he asked my grandmother if she would mind being poor, she said she would be happy just to have her daughter and himself: 'If you have love, even plain water is sweet.

If you have love, even plain cold water is sweet.

If I know from the start that I'm going to be alone, I'm not lonely. It doesn't bother me.