Quotes About Contentment

SEEING THE WORLD "In the fifties, when my mother began lobbying for a trip to Europe, my father, who had been brought to Missouri from the Ukraine when he was two, said, 'I been.' 

Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.

It's always the people who don't want things who get them.

Grace was one of those types who never changed but only aged and had no apparent expectations or ambitions other than the wish that her life should remain the same.

Is this better or worse than being married and living in the suburbs? Better or worse? Who can tell?

If a woman gets one good man in her life, she's lucky. She should be happy. Asking for two good men is tempting fate.

Maybe we should all decide we're going to meet the man of our dreams when we're thirty-seven. Then we'll stop squeezing into tight shirts and walking around half-naked and analysing every encounter as future husband material. We'll stop feeling the need to put on makeup to take out the trash just in case he's walking by. Maybe we should just assume that we'll meet our dream man at some future point, and stop driving ourselves crazy before then.

When I was nineteen and I didn't have a boyfriend, I never felt bad about it. Because I figured someday I would. My friends and I had plenty of fun alone. What ruins the fun is the fear that you'll be that way forever.

there was no anger in his voice,no disappointment even.

Aldous Huxley. 'Being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune.' You think about that.

The dog was having a grand time. That's the thing about being a Labrador Retriever, you were born for fun. Seldom was your loopy, freewheeling mind cluttered by contemplation and never at all by somber worry. Every day was a romp. What else could there possibly be to life? Eating was a thrill, pissing was a treat, shitting was a joy. And licking your own balls? Bliss!

And now it is as we wanted it.

God, let me remember all good losers.

Y'know how indifferent I am to money. I think of money in terms of what it does for you.

My baby don' care fo' rings or other expensive things— My baby just cares—fo'—me!

He is gallantly smiling, ineluctably smiling, as if to say 'I will be smiling forever.

No one knows enough to worry.

Love turns work into rest.

With the practice of intentional gratitude, there is no time for regrets about the past, or worries about the future. There is only thankfulness for the here and now.

there is no greater misery than to remember, with bitter regret, a day when you were happy 

A cat never discusses his business with humans, not even Princesses. A cat never explains and never apologizes. A cat never alibis. You must accept a cat as it is and for what it is and not expect more than the pleasure of its company.

You spend so much time wondering who you are, don't you think? You flounder about, searching for your identity, when most of the time it is as plain as the nose on your face. You struggle with questions of purpose and need, and forger that the answers are mostly inside yourselves. He paused anew. Cats are not included in that analysis. Cats don't waste time wondering about such things. Cats just get on with the business of living.

He didn't try to think, didn't care to remember, but wished only to lose himself in the peace and quiet

You spend so much time wondering who you are, don't you think? You flounder about, searching for your identity, when most of the time it is as plain as the nose on your face. You struggle with questions of purpose and need, and forget that the answers are mostly inside yourselves. He paused anew. Cats are not included in that analysis. Cats don't waste time wondering about such things. Cats just get on with the business of living.