Quotes About Contentment

Sometimes happiness consists of finding the right balance of misery.

He didn't feel that way about anybody. You just live in the place you're in, you don't worry about where you used to be or where you wish you were, here is where you are and here's where you've got to find a way to survive and lying in bed boo-hooing doesn't help much with that.

Happiness can depend as easily on useless things as on useful ones.

I must rejoice that I am part of her, instead of resenting that I am not more of her.

You just live in the place you're in, you don't worry about where you used to be or where you wish you were, here is where you are and here's where you've got to find a way to survive

None of us could be happy for long, doing nothing. Or perhaps it's just that none of us could be happy living with no other company than ourself.

I've had enough adventures," said Noxon, "to know that boredom is the closest thing to happiness. Boredom means that there's nothing wrong. You're not hungry, you're not in pain. Nobody's making any demands on you. Your mind is free to think whatever you want. The only thing that makes boredom unpleasant is if you're impatient for something else to happen.

You just live in the place you're in, you don't worry about where you used to be or where you wish you were, here is where you are and here's where you've got to find a way

Her barrel of misery has depth enough to hold a thousand bushels of happiness.

The reason for a woman's life," said Sarai, "is the same as the reason for a man's—so that she might have joy.

Bean just didn't get it. He didn't feel that way about anybody. You just live in the place you're in, you don't worry about where you used to be or where you wish you were, here is where you are and here's where you've got to find a way to survive and lying in bed boo-hooing doesn't help much with that.

A pure soul must never grow attached to any one thing.

I've had enough adventures, said Noxon, to know that boredom is the closest thing to happiness. Boredom means that there's nothing wrong. You're not hungry, you're not in pain. Nobody's making any demands on you. Your mind is free to think whatever you want. The only thing that makes boredom unpleasant is if you're impatient for something else to happen.

Happiness can depend as easily on useless things as in useful ones.

La felicidad puede depender tan fácilmente de las cosas útiles como de las inútiles.

You only covet what you do not have.' Who said that?" "You did," said Han Fei-tzu. "Some say, 'what you cannot have.' Others say, 'what you should not have.' I say, 'You can truly covet only what you will always hunger for.

I'm not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.

With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?

Who, being loved, is poor?

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?

A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.

They get up early, because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they have so little to think about.

I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.