Quotes About Contentment

Dismiss perfection as an ache of the greedy, but do not give in to the mass modesty of easy imperfection.

I always had this certain contentment- I wouldn't call it happiness- it was more of an inner balance that settled for whatever was occurring

It felt good to sit alone in a small space and smoke and drink. I had always been good company for myself.

Hey, Bubu, a bottle of good French wine...Sip it slowly, do you most good. You'll sleep. Be happy. And if you want to come downstairs, dance and sing, talk, ok. Do what you want. Here's the wine.

Although looked down upon, the idiots seemed to have the more peaceful lives: nothing was expected of them.

I began to feel like a kept man and it felt great.

I pushed up against her warm tail and was asleep in 45 seconds.

it is usually mid-afternoon and quiet, and getting dressed we talk about what else there might be to do, but being together solves most of it for as long as those things stay solved in the history of women and man, it's different for each- for me, it's splendid enough to remember past the memories of pain and defeat and unhappiness: when you take it away do it slowly and easily make it as if I were dying in my sleep instead of in my life, amen.

The public is fortunate. Everything pleases them: icecream cones, rock concerts, singing, swinging, love, hate, masturbation, hot dogs, country dances, Jesus Christ, roller skating, spiritualism, capitalism, communism, circumcision, comic strips, Bob Hope, skiing, fishing murder bowling debating, anything. They don't expect much and they don't get much. They are one grand gang.

it's the same for most of us but one of the best things I learned was to stay out of the bars and also to try to stay off the street. I fail sometimes to stay off the streets but not too often. the finest place on earth to drink is in your own place and alone. you probably know all this. all right.

Manny, what are you doing working in auto parts?" "Resting.

I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn't a nightmare. I don't hate people. I just feel better when they aren't around.

That way I wouldn't have to see the guys in their walking shorts. They looked as if nothing had ever touched them—all well-mothered, protected, with a soft sheen of contentment. None of them had ever been in jail, or worked hard with their hands, or even gotten a traffic ticket. Skimmed-milk jollies, the whole bunch.

Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you're feeling bad, you just look at the cats, you'll feel better because they know that everything is just as it is. There's nothing to get excited about. They just know. They're saviours.

I didn't know what I wanted. Yes, I did. I wanted someplace to hide out, someplace where one didn't have to do anything.

What is your philosophy of life?" "Think as little as possible." "Anything else?" "When you can't think of anything else to do, be kind.

The less i needed the better i felt.

No matter how little a man has he will find that he will always settle for less.

so I let them have their little victories which they need far more than I do.

Nobody bother us, we bother nobody.

As I began to drink alone I found my company more than satisfactory.

It was going to be alright. At last. For a while.

My only ambition is not to be anything at all; it seems the most sensible thing.

What do I think is important? Good wine, good plumbing and to be able to sleep late in the mornings.