Quotes About Contentment

Although we all have what we need, we're still allowed to strive for the things we want.

You will take no more than you need, and waste nothing. People will attempt to buy your friendship. They will lavish things upon you. Accept nothing but the barest of human necessities.

They lived in a world where nothing anyone did really mattered. Survival was guaranteed. Income was guaranteed. Food was plentiful, and comfort was a given. The Thunderhead saw to everyone's needs. When you need nothing, what else can life be but pleasant?

Munira Atrushi, like most people in the world, had a job that was perfect in that it was perfectly ordinary. And like most every- one in the world, she didn't hate her job, nor did she love it. Her feelings lingered somewhere near the center.

With nothing to really aspire to, life had become about maintenance. Eternal maintenance.

She would have asked the man why he stayed if he so disliked it here, but she knew the answer. He stayed because his greatest joy in life was to complain.

He was safe. He was protected. What more could he ask for? Everything.

Have you sunk into so deep a stupor that you are happy only in your unhappiness? - Anywhere, Out of this World

Almost all our evils arise from being unable to stay in our rooms," said another sage, Pascal. ("Yan?lm?yorsam Pascal, 'neredeyse tüm mutsuzluklar?m?z odam?zda kalmay? bilememiÅŸ olmam?zdan geliyor ba??m?za' der")

Take it easy, Sadness. Settle down.

Che belli i soli nelle calde sere!

We don't even ask happiness, just a little less pain.

I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals. I was settled into nothingness; a kind of non-being, and I accepted it. I didn't make for an interesting person. I didn't want to be interesting, it was too hard. What I really wanted was only a soft, hazy space to live in, and to be left alone.

In my next life I want to be a cat. To sleep 20 hours a day and wait to be fed. To sit around licking my ass.

The best thing about the bedroom was the bed. I liked to stay in bed for hours, even during the day with covers pulled up to my chin. It was good in there, nothing ever occurred in there, no people, nothing.

There are only two things wrong with money: too much or too little.

The less I needed, the better I felt.

I was naturally a loner, content just to live with a woman, eat with her, sleep with her, walk down the street with her. I didn't want conversation, or to go anywhere except the racetrack or the boxing matches. I didn't understand t.v. I felt foolish paying money to go into a movie theatre and sit with other people to share their emotions. Parties sickened me. I hated the game-playing, the dirty play, the flirting, the amateur drunks, the bores.

I think that the world should be full of cats and full of rain, that's all, just cats and rain, rain and cats, very nice, good night.

People don't need love. What they need is success in one form or another. It can be love but it needn't be.

be it peace or happiness let it enfold you

I was settled into nothingness; a kind of non-being, and I accepted it. It didn't make for an interesting person. I didn't want to be interesting, it was too hard. What I really wanted was only a soft, hazy space to live in, and to be left alone.

I just want a hot cup of coffee,black,and I don't want to hear about your troubles.

Everything you own must be able to fit inside one suitcase; then your mind might be free.