Quotes About Contentment

You have been good for me. What more could anyone ask for? I'm a better person than I was before we got together. That's your doing.

So life hasn't turned out right for either of us, not the way we expected,' he said. 'Except it feels good now, at this moment.

And when I am old, and my body has begun to fail me, my memories will be waiting for me. They will lift me and carry me over mountains and oceans. I will hold them and turn them and watch them catch the sunlight as they come alive once more in my imagination. I will be rich and I will be at peace.

To make a happy fire-side clime To weans and wife, That's the true pathos and sublime Of human life.

Sleeping on a futon when you're 30 is not the worst thing. You know what's worse, sleeping in a king bed next to a wife you're not really in love with but for some reason you married, and you got a couple kids, and you got a job you hate. You'll be laying there fantasizing about sleeping on a futon.

A small town is a place where there is no place to go where you shouldn't.

Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.

I'm not concerned about anything anymore. It's kind of in the shadows. There's been a sea change on all of that. Things that I felt passionately about, I just don't anymore. I think that goes ... I think that goes with just being older and having had the privilege of having a full and active life, and now just fading, fading--fading away, like General MacArthur said.

Look, the key for me is to keep expectations low.

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

what we charish is not important,what we take for granted is.

The most we can do is to die--contented, discontent; With a few to wonder why, and whither our spirit went, And what the interval meant!

All I have is all I need and all I need is all I have in this moment.

Seeking love keeps you from the awareness that you already have it—that you are it.

Being present means living without control and always having your needs met.

Después de todo, ése era el secreto de la felicidad: disfrutar de cada momento dentro de sus condiciones propias, sin imaginarse otras.

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he who thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

The day I understood everything, was the day I stopped trying to figure everything out. The day I knew peace was the day I let everything go.

Choose your battles wisely. After all, life isn't measured by how many times you stood up to fight. It's not winning battles that makes you happy, but it's how many times you turned away and chose to look into a better direction. Life is too short to spend it on warring. Fight only the most, most, most important ones, let the rest go.

I have learned that you can go anywhere you want to go and do anything you want to do and buy all the things that you want to buy and meet all the people that you want to meet and learn all the things that you desire to learn and if you do all these things but are not madly in love: you have still not begun to live.

People wait around too long for love. I'm happy with all of my lusts!

You won't find a new country, won't find another shore. This city will always pursue you. You will walk the same streets, grow old in the same neighborhoods, will turn gray in these same houses. You will always end up in this city. Don't hope for things elsewhere: there is no ship for you, there is no road. As you've wasted your life here, in this small corner, you've destroyed it everywhere else in the world.

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.