Quotes About Contentment

They really wanted to remain always in their own house and their own garden. There are such people.

How sad for those who cannot enjoy what are after all prime pleasures of daily life, and perhaps for some the only ones, eating and drinking.

I was born to be nothing and to have nothing.

Oh if only only only we could be happy and ordinary like other people.

I can see this so clearly because I have long ago given up my own hopes of being happy.

You can go now. There's nothing more to learn. I am poured out and empty. Good night.

One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats, and if some of these can be inexpensive and quickly procured so much the better. Life

Oh Christ, if I could only have some happiness.

Not to have been born is undoubtedly best, but sound sleep is second best.

Happiness must exist. It can't all be made of pain. But what is happiness made of?

I do wish you could be happy. If I thought you could be happy I could simply cease to exist with a sigh of joy.

Do you think it's ever safe to say one's happy?

The loss of her reason did not seem to have made her unhappy

One can't whistle up happiness. It's a gift of nature and I haven't got it.

When I am told that a person is happy,' said Nick, 'I know that he is not. Of really happy people this is never said.

She would give ease to his too long wandering heart, and then he could live more fully in the world of other people, more able, because more happy, to give them his full attention.

She did not really mind not altogether enjoying it in bed.

The best you can hope for is a little peace and not too much remorse. Thoughts at peace under an English heaven.

enjoying literature as those alone enjoy it who have little else to enjoy.

This was everything that I wanted to be done with, the relaxed banality of life without goals.

Uno de los secretos de una vida feliz es la continuidad de los pequeños placeres, y si algunos pueden ser baratos y conseguidos sin demora, tanto mejor.

People may be settled into ways of life which preclude continued happiness, but which are satisfactory and far to be preferred to alternatives.

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

Settle down! she thought. Yes, settle down into dreariness and quietness and forgetfulness and boredom.