Quotes About Contentment

May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect. Deliver me, Tyler, from being perfect and complete. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 5

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

No matter how many luxuries you get, something will be missing. No matter how carefully you choose, you'll never be totally happy.

So here I am. This is as good as it gets. Take it or leave it.

We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.

I'm living the life I love, I tell myself, and loving the life I live. I tell myself: I deserved this. This is exactly what I wanted.

Deliver me from Swedish furniture. Deliver me from clever art. And the phone rang and Tyler answered. If you don't know what you want, the doorman said, you end up with a lot you don't. May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect. Deliver me, Tyler, from being perfect and complete.

A house full of condiments and no real food. If you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't.

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up. The shortcut to closing a door is to bury yourself in the details. This is how we must look to God. As if everything's just fine.

You wake up, and that's enough.

What makes the earth feel like hell is our expectation that it ought to feel like heaven. Earth is earth. Hell is hell. Now, stop with the whining and caterwauling.

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

My gold­fish and me, both of us are just here swim­ming in one place.

I want to tell them, stay in the cage. There are bet­ter things than free­dom. There are worse things than liv­ing a long bored life in some stranger's house and then dy­ing and go­ing to ca­nary heav­en.

I just couldn't go there yet. Settle for less. I didn't want to process through anything. I didn't want to pick up any pieces. Lower my expectations. Get on with my less-than life. I didn't want to feel better about being still alive. Start compensating.

Aim low and you won't be disappointed.

No matter luxuries you get, something will be missing. No matter how carefully you chooe, you'll nevver be totally happy.

Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I have now? Am I just under a spell that says nothing is ever good enough?

Raymond K. K. Hessel, your dinner is going to taste better than any meal you've ever eaten, and tomorrow will be the most beautiful day of your entire life.

No matter luxuries you get, something will be missing. No matter how carefully you chooe, you'll never be totally happy.

If you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't.

Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they don't need. Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need.

Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need.

Si no sabes lo que quieres —continuó el porte­ro—, terminas teniendo un montón de cosas que no necesitas.