Quotes About Contentment

I am serene and balanced, whether life is perfect or not.

I feel guilty because I think people should do something they really like to do in life. I should do something else, but there is nothing I can do really well. I'm established and make a steady living, so it becomes pretty easy. It's not very fulfilling . . . but I'm lazy, I admit it. It's an easier thing to do.

He made me so angry. Here is this motherfucker, who is comfortable, he's not struggling — in truth, there's not a hell of a lot for him to struggle about, 'cause he's a fuckin' marshmallow in a bag of marshmallows. He's a nice guy. I mean, I like him. But he's a fuckin' marshmallow.

Love Is What I Got

Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body." – George Carlin, Author, Actor and Comedian

Satisfaction comes from giving up wishing I was somewhere else or doing something else.

The best memorial is a boxful of happy memories inside your head

I love being single. It's almost like being rich.

Personally, I'd rather grow old alone than in the company of anyone I've met so far. I don't experience myself as lonely, incomplete, or unfulfilled, but I don't talk about that much. It seems to piss people off--especially men. (Kinsey Millhone)

Smile. It gives your face something to do.

Abundance is, in large part, an attitude.

If you have your why? in life, you can get along with almost any how? People don't strive for happiness, only the English do.

At four o'clock I had one of those rare moments of happiness that I will remember all my life. I was sitting in front of Grandma's electric coal fire eating dripping toast and reading the News of the World. There was a good play on Radio Four about torturing in concentration camps. Grandma was asleep and the dog was being quiet. All at once I felt this dead good feeling. Perhaps I am turning religious. I think I have got it in me to be a Saint of some kind.

She had always been comforted by confectionery

Your trouble is, you want to be happy all the time. You're fifty years old -- haven't you realized yet that most of the time most of us just trudge through life? Happy days are few and far between.

Você precisa criar sua própria estratégia pessoal para menos confusão, para parar de pensar que precisa gastar dinheiro que não possui em coisas que não precisa para impressionar pessoas que nem gosta.

The change needed to restore good feeling cannot be reached by remanding women to the spinning wheel, and the contentment of her grandmother, but by conceding to her every right which the spirit of the age demands. Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.

Peace through Pleasure

I don't think my parents ever knew what they did for us. They were to busy doing what needed to be done. As far as we as she was concerned, we were rich as Rockefeller; I never heard her wish for more. She made us feel like we had everything, and we though so, too.

We didn't have a lot of money but just enough, apparently. because we had the basics, warm beds, clean jammies, friends, shoes, grilled cheese sandwiches, and parents wno loved us. I always thought we were rich because I felt so happy.

The secret of having it all is believing that you do.

This is how I want to be at the end of my life, white-haired, red-cheeked, with a radiant intelligence evident in clear bright eyes.

Life was so simple for a dog. Eat. Walk. Dump. Nap. Eat. Dump. Sleep. And then do it all over again the next day. There was beauty in simplicity.

She wasn't [okay], though. Okay was a bland, plateau-like emotional state, somewhere between fine and miserable on the feelings scale.