Quotes About Contentment

I must not wish you no pain, for that can never be, but I do hope you will be always as happy as I am now" Excerpt From: Stoker, Bram. "Dracula." iBooks. This material may be protected by copyright. Check out this book on the iBookstore: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/drac...

How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads, to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.

you will not be content, I know, to remain in the dark. Nay, the end, the very end, may give you a gleam of peace.

Qué afortunadas son algunas personas, en cuyas vidas no existe el temor ni el miedo; para quienes dormir es una bendición que llega cada noche, y que solo les proporciona dulces sueños.!

Y con respecto a la vida, doctor, ¿Qué es, al fin y al cabo? Cuando se ha logrado todo lo que se necesita y se sabe que ya no se quiere nada más, ahí acaba todo.

How blessed are those whose lives have no fears, to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.- Dracula

Most pleasures are best as a seasoning, not the main course. p. 374

Being smart can make happiness elusive. Being REALLY smart can help you find it in more places than most.

Considering the circumstances, Rollan figured being alive was the same thing as being okay.

I'd rather die this way than live that way. This is the best I've felt in a long time.

But comes a time for a woman when she stops thinking of herself as a girl, as a person of possibilities. She starts looking at the plain facts of herself. Her body that's become the body that she has and her habits becoming the habits that she's written in stone. Her "haves" being the ones she's got and maybe not getting anymore.

You are happy, he breathed. I will buy you a hundred more.

Sometimes one had to be grateful for the small things.

If a man's not content in his soul it really doesn't matter where he lives. p. 131)

She is happy, Kate thought. Even in her circumstance, she is happy. Kate almost envied the wounded woman that contentment. Was that what suffering did? she wondered. Place you in such pain that with its lessening, contentment came more easily. (p. 180)

But you don't need anything. You have everything,' I tell him. Rip looks at me. 'No I don't.' 'What?' 'No I don't.' There's a pause and then I ask, 'Oh, shit, Rip, What don't you have?' 'I don't have anything to loose.

if you're alone nothing bad can happen to you.

What do you want, Patrick? she sighs. I just want peace, love, friendship, understanding, I say dispassionately.

The numbing lists of things you were supposed to have as an American to make you happy, which ultimately, of course, don't. Those aren't the things that make you happy.

Como Jean poderia compreender que nada pode me desapontar porque não acho nada digno de ser desejado?

You seem happy. I'm almost afraid of how happy I am.

This moment was perfect, regardless of what had come before and what would come tomorrow. He

I hardly ever read the paper or watch television. I usually don't know what's going on in the world. You'd be amazed how little difference it makes to your life on most days.

Life's about making choices, Dylan. This was my choice. I don't have a single regret.