Quotes About Contentment

They used to pester me about gettin married again and I was near sixty when my wife died. My sister in law primarily. I'd done already had the best woman ever was. Aint nobody goin to be that lucky twice runnin.

My guess is that you can only be so happy. While there seems to be no floor to sorrow.

He kept complaining about everything until they finally turned on him and asked him just what it was that he wanted. That seemed to stop him and he gave it some thought and finally he said that he just wanted to be happy. At which they turned on him all over again and said no no no, Leonard. Realistic goals.

You dont always get what you want. But then you dont always want what you get so it's probably pretty much of a wash.

And that would be my life. And I would be happy.

se sentó con las manos ahuecadas en el regazo y aparentemente satisfecho con el mundo, como si se le hubiera consultado a él en el momento de su creación.

There was nothing to set a man's mind at ease like waking up in the morning and not having to decide who you were.

He ate the last of the eggs and wiped the plate with the tortilla and ate the tortilla and drank the last of the coffee and wiped his mouth and looked up and thanked her.

She read and read and read, but she was stuffing herself with the letters on the page like an unhappy child stuffing itself with chocolate. They didn't taste bad, but she was still unhappy.

Dustfinger closed his eyes and listened. He was home again.

I'm perfectly happy to know the world at secondhand. It's a lot safer.

And all was well.

Die Füchsin<<, sagte er. >>Die Füchsin, ist alles was ich brauche.

You're paying the price now, Elinor,' she often told herself these days. Paying the price for the happiness of those last months. Didn't books always say that, too: that there's always a price to pay for happiness? How could she ever have thought she would simply find it and be allowed to keep it?

C'era una volta... le fiabe non cominciano così per niente, Will. Ma il poi vissero per sempre felici e contenti ce lo si deve guadagnare.

Everybody could be doing something better without their lives. Name me one person who is doing the best, most righteous thing with their life this very minute.

Its easier to feel a little more spiritual with a couple of bucks in your pocket.

I'm gonna enjoy being old I think I'll be awesome at it.

We would do well to remember that envy is clearly the flint that ignites evil in our hearts. It apparently signals I'm available to demons searching for a cheap date. Envy is as volatile as nitroglycerin, and we cannot carry it inside us without evil exploding.

A day unemployed is like a bagel- even when it's bad, it's still pretty good...

What if God wants us to be happy? What if there's nothing else around the bend? What if all our unhappiness is in the past and from here on out we get an uncomplicated life? Some people get that, you know. Why shouldn't it be us?

But I never thought of who he wasn't, I never had to explain or defend him to myself, I didn't even care what we talked about.

We're so lucky, I said. Don't you think? Most people don't have that. I know, everywhere other than New York, if you have a good job and a spouse and kids and a house and a car, those are the markers of maturity and stability and completeness. And you eat your dinner at seven P.M. and go to bed at ten, and go for vigorous jogs on the weekend. If you're into that, great. But there are lots of other ways to put a life together.

If this was all I ever got, it would be the best thing that had ever happened to me, and if this was all I ever got, I'd never stop wanting more of it.