Quotes About Contentment

out because now and then we get exactly what we want.

There was no hurry. Time was something he had as much of as he needed.

But chances were few and far between in their world, and mostly you had to settle for what you were given and be grateful.

You lived the life you were given, good or bad.

you had to settle for what you were given and be grateful.

You can live your life worrying about what you don't know, or you can accept your limitations and make the best of it.

But we don't always get what we want in this life. In fact, we don't get what we want most of the time. We get compromises and settlements, half measures and tamped-down dreams. We get half a loaf baked, half a glass filled.

Sometimes you have to settle for doing what you can as opposed to what you think you should.

It was a waste of time to wish that things had happened differently.

It was like finding the other half of myself and being complete, whole, for the first time in my life.

make a nice life for

Death: THERE ARE BETTER THINGS IN THE WORLD THAN ALCOHOL, ALBERT. Albert: Oh, yes, sir. But alcohol sort of compensates for not getting them.

No more words. We know them all, all the words that should not be said. But you have made my world more perfect.

When I am old I shall wear midnight.

BE HAPPY WITH WHAT YOU'VE GOT, IS THAT THE IDEA? "That's about the size of it, master. A good god line, that. Don't give 'em too much and tell 'em to be happy with it. Jam tomorrow, see." THIS IS WRONG. Death hesitated. I MEAN…IT'S RIGHT TO BE HAPPY WITH WHAT YOU'VE GOT. BUT YOU'VE GOT TO HAVE SOMETHING TO BE HAPPY ABOUT HAVING. THERE'S NO POINT IN BEING HAPPY ABOUT HAVING NOTHING.

This is a lovely party, said the Bursar to a chair, I wish I was here.

Pride is all very well, but a sausage is a sausage.

Even with nougat, you can have a perfect moment.

Vimes had never mastered ambition. It was something that happened to other people.

What good's a god who gives you everything you want?

Money is all you can think about when all you have is a price, Carrot said

But...well, Reg, tomorrow the sun will come up again, and I'm pretty sure that whatever happens we won't have found Freedom, and there won't be a whole lot of Justice, and I'm damn sure we won't have found Truth. But it's just possible that I might get a hard-boiled egg.

The purr is very important. It's the purr that does it every time. It's the purr that makes up for the Things Under the Bed, the occasional pungency, the 4 a.m. yowl. Other creatures went in for big teeth, long legs or over-active brains, while cats just settled for a noise that tells the world they're feeling happy.

what is there in this world that makes living worthwhile?" Death thought about it. CATS, he said eventually, CATS ARE NICE.