Quotes About Contentment

Just as the overturned bucket that was once brimming seems so much emptier than the bucket that never held milk in the first place. Thanks for filling my little pail.

The mystics say that as soon as you give it up, you can have it. That may be true, but who wants it when you don't want it.

The economic world, the world of the equities markets, just seemed like a perfect foil, the ideal backdrop against which to contrast this story about legendary amphibians from outer space, because everything these days is all about money. In this book (Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas) I'm hoping to illustrate that there not only are far more important things than money, but there are far more interesting things. (from NPR Interviews edited by Robert Siegel)

The mystics say that as soon as you give it up, you can have it. That may be true, but who wants it when you don't want it.

Pour vivre heureux, vivons cachés, says an old French dictum—to live happily, live hidden.

HENRY: You don't get visited by happiness like being lucky with the weather. The weather is the weather. DEBBIE: And happiness? HENRY: Happiness is . . . equilibrium. Shift your weight.

No tengo lo que quería, eso es verdad, pero quiero lo que tengo.

Ich lächele. Nicht kontrolliert, nicht beabsichtigt, nicht, weil ich das Gefühl habe, dass ich muss. Ic h lächele, weil ich glücklich bin

A smile is happiness you'll find right under your nose.

A smile is happiness you'll find right under your nose.

There is much more of God available than we have ever known or imagined, but we have become so satisfied with where we are and what we have that we don't press in for God's best.

Eu não quero mais bênçãos, quero Aquele que abençoa. Não quero mais dons, quero Aquele que os concede.

Lonely was much better than alone.

If happiness is anticipation with certainty, we were happy.

I want to feel what I feel. What's mine. Even if it's not happiness, whatever that means. Because you're all you've got.

It had been the longest time since she had had a rib-scraping laugh. She had forgotten how deep and down it could be. So different from the miscellaneous giggles and smiles she had learned to be content with these past few years.

A woman is an important somebody and sometimes you win the triple crown: good food, good sex, and good talk. Most men settle for any one, happy as a clam if they get two. But listen, let me tell you something. A good man is a good thing, but there is nothing in the world better than a good good woman. She can be your mother, your wife, your girlfriend, your sister, or somebody you work next to. Don't matter. You find one, stay there. You see a scary one, make tracks.

Shadrack rose and returned to the cot, where he fell into the first sleep of his new life. A sleep deeper than the hospital drugs; deeper than the pits of plums, steadier than the condor's wing; more tranquil than the curve of eggs.

I want to feel what I feel. Even if it's not happiness

Truly landlocked people know they are. Know the occasional Bitter Creek or Powder River that runs through Wyoming; that the large tidy Salt Lake of Utah is all they have of the sea and that they must content themselves with bank, shore, and beach because they cannot claim a coast. And having none, seldom dream of flight.

At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to paint, photograph or even remember it. It is enough.

At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.

I was happy, free in a way I had never been, ever. It was the oddest sensation. Not ecstasy, not satisfaction, not a surfeit of pleasure or accomplishment. It was a purer delight, a rogue anticipation with certainty.

His first earned purchase made him glow, never mind the turnips were withered dry. That was when he decided that to eat, walk and sleep anywhere was life as good as it got.