Quotes About Contentment

Avrei potuto anche accontentarmi, ma è così che si diventa infelici.

insan?n kendini nedenini bilmeksizin iyi hissetmesi ne güzel: ya da s?n?rl? bile olsa seçimi olabilmesi; ya da biraz aÅŸk?, nefrete dönüÅŸmeyen.

Well," I said to Sara, "it ain't been a bad year. Nobody murdered me." "And you're still able to drink every night and get up at noon every day." "If I can just hold out another year.

he estado solo pero rara vez me he sentido solo he saciado mi sed en el pozo de mi ser, y el vino era bueno, el mejor que he probado

I felt better being alone.

I don't deserve what you have and I want to keep it that way.

Never had I felt so good. It was better than masturbating.

there are some people who must always go somewhere. 'let's go to a movie!' 'let's go boating!' 'let's get laid!' 'screw all that stuff,' I always say, 'just let me sit here.

My ideal life is a quiet one. I like to read, to sit still in the same chair, with the lampshade at a certain angle, alone, or with Meagan nearby, and now and then, if I'm lucky, I'll come across a lovely phrase or fine sentiment, look up from my book, and feel the harmony of some notion, the justice of it, and know that everything is there. That's life to me, those privately discovered moments.

Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music.

Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.

My idea of happiness is a rainy evening with a comfortable book to read.

happiness comes from doing great things-rather than getting great things

the path to contentment was to abide by one's own nature and follow it's path.

He floated along thinking he would like to love the world as it was, and he felt a great deal of accomplishment for the occasions when he did, since the other was so easy.

She'd said one night, I don't think about the past much. I try to take each day as it presents itself and let sleep put it away before the next sunrise.

She draws a long deep breath and hums a bit of "Sunflower Slow Drag," her fingers twitching to press imaginary keys. Soon she falls asleep.

And slept like a dead pig;

For they were, in the first place, even down to the very poorest, a well-fed people, with fewer luxuries than we, but more abundant necessaries; and while beef, ale, and good woollen clothes could be obtained in plenty, without overworking either body or soul, men had time to amuse themselves in something more intellectual than mere toping in pot-houses.

is it not written, that those who make haste to be rich, pierce themselves through with many sorrows?

If you wish to be miserable, think about yourself, about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay you, what people think of you; and then to you nothing will be pure. You will spoil everything you touch; you will make sin and misery for yourself out of everything God sends you; you will be as wretched as you choose.

Why should we long for the next world, before we are fit even for this one?

That Enough Is As Good As a Feast' ...The inventor of [this saying] did not believe it himself....Goodly legs and shoulders of mutton, exhilarating cordials, books, pictures, the opportunities of seeing foreign countries, independence, heart's ease, a man's own time to himself, are not muck — however we may be pleased to scandalise with that appellation the faithful metal that provides them for us.

nothing to prove, nothing to lose.