Quotes About Contentment

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Knowing it does not compare with loving it; loving it does not compare with delighting in it.

Non esiste una strada verso la felicità. La felicità è la strada.

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life

The knowledge that she was needed by something living, that she could benefit another creature, produce happiness, or contentment, or just a feeling of security--somehow it filled a part of her as nothing else had.

They make you settle for second best. That's what I like about the movies. There's always some minor character standing round to tell you the moral, just in case you're too dumb to figure it out for yourself. You never get what you want.

I think by the time you're grown you're as happy as you're goin to be. You'll have good times and bad times, but in the end you'll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I've knowed people that just never did get the hang of it.

When he went back to the fire he knelt and smoothed her hair as she slept and he said if he were God he would have made the world just so and no different.

I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that's just about the best kind of luck you can have.

There is for a man two things in life that are very important, head and shoulders above everything else. Find work you like, and find someone to live with you like. Very few people get both.

When your dreams are of some world that never was or of some world that never will be and you are happy again then you will have given up.

My daddy once told me that some of the most miserable people he ever knew were the ones that finally got what they'd always wanted.

If I didnt have her I dont know what I would have. Well, yes I do. You wouldnt need a box to put it in, neither.

Cuando sueñes con un mundo que nunca existió o con un mundo que no existirá y estés contento otra vez entonces te habrás rendido. ¿Lo entiendes? Y no puedes rendirte. Yo no lo permitiré.

Black: If this aint the life you had in mind, what was? White: I dont know. Not this. Is your life the one you'd planned? Black: No, it aint. I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that's just about the best kind of luck you can have.

He said there was nothin to set a man's mind at ease like wakin up in the morning and not havin to decide who you were.

A man gets older, he said, he finds they's lots of things he can do jest as well without and so he don't have to worry about this and that the way a young feller will. I worked near all my life and never had nothin. Seems like a old man'd be allowed his rest but then he comes to find they's things you have to do on account of nobody else wants to attend to em... Most ever man loves peace, he said, and none better than a old man.

I hear people talking about going on a vacation or something and I think, what is that about? I have no desire to go on a trip. My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That's heaven. That's gold and anything else is just a waste of time.

Quan els teus somnis siguin d'un món que no existirà mai i et tornis a sentir feliç, serà que t'has rendit.

Really. Been married once. No children. Amicably divorced. I dont have any tragedies in my life to give it a form and destination outside of my control. I like what I'm doing. But I could be doing something else. I've been blessed. I'm not even sure I'd change the bad things. Here comes the food.

I think by the time you're grown you're as happy as you're goin to be. You'll have good times and bad times, but in the end you'll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy.

What. When your dreams are of some world that never was or of some world that never will be and you are happy again then you will have given up.

Yeah, well. I know this is probably as good as it's goin to get and I'm a pretty grateful motherfucker.

Dont become anxious. Try not to get worked up. A word to the wise. Bird in hand. Bird in hand? A stitch in time. We're not out of the woods. What the fuck. Where's it say that? Penny wise and pound foolish. Honesty is the best policy. Jesus. Enough