Quotes About Contentment

I mean, I'll have everything I want here when you are. So, yes, absolutely yes.

She'd just be more satisfied if my happiness aligned with her point of view.

It wasn't really a walk, she thought as she wound through rosebushes and the heavy scent of gardenia. It was more of a meander. No hurry, no destination, no problems.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition Ã¢â'¬Â¦ —SAMUEL JOHNSON The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. —WILLA CATHER

What was it like, she wondered, to wake up every morning knowing exactly where you belonged and where you were going?

The Buddha stated that "happiness is the greatest wealth.

What is going to happen in the course of my day that will be an improvement over lying on something very soft, underneath something very warm, wearing only underwear, doing absolutely nothing, all by myself?

Maybe I don't need a relationship after all, she thought. Maybe thinking about these conversations was just as good as having them. She could sit in her Honda in the dark and experience whatever kind of life she wanted. Sometimes you think, Hey, maybe there's something else out there. But there really isn't. This is what being alive feels like, you know? The place doesn't matter. You just live.

Within these strangely specific conditions, everything is perfect. We are perfect.

It was not nostalgia for a time that was more wholesome. It was nostalgia for a time when you could relax and care less.

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

Nothing drives people crazier than seeing someone have a good fucking life.

Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I have now?

For the first time in longer than I can remember, I feel peaceful. Not happy. Not sad. Not anxious. Not horny. Just all the higher parts of my brain closing up shop. The cerebral cortex. The cerebellum. That's where my problem is. I'm now simplifying myself. Somewhere balanced in the perfect middle between happiness and sadness. Because sponges never have a bad day.

Life's greatest comfort is being able to look over your shoulder and see people worse off, waiting in line behind you.

I say let me never be complete, I say may I never be content,I say deliver me from Swedish furniture, I say deliver me from clever arts, I say deliver me from clear skin and perfect teeth,I say you have to give up! I say evolve, and let the chips fall where they may!

If you died right now, how would you feel about your life?

I wish I had the courage not to fight and doubt everything... I wish, just once, I could say, 'This. This is good enough. Just because I choose it.

That's the best revenge of all: happiness. Nothing drives people crazier than seeing someone having a good fucking laugh.

The big reason why folks leave a small town,' Rant used to say, 'is so they can moon over the idea of going back. And the reason they stay put is so they can moon about getting out.' Rant meant that no one is happy, anywhere.

That if you could acquire enough, accomplish enough, you'd never want to own or do another thing. That if you could eat or sleep enough, you'd never need more. That if enough people loved you, you'd stop needing love.

Being tired isn't the same as being rich, but most times it's close enough.

That's the best revenge of all: happiness. Nothing drives people crazier than seeing someone have a good fucking life.

Where every day doesn't start with an alarm clock and end with the television.