Quotes About Contentment

Live every day to its fullest, and do not be a slave to your hopes for the future. If you do not learn to enjoy today you will not enjoy the future no matter what it may bring.

Few studies have been done to discover why the happy man is happy, yet his answers would be highly pertinent.

Seeing him somewhere was always a pleasure, like taking a drink of water.

She was almost sixty and she had not been to London, or Paris, or Rome, and there was no going there now. Yes, she was balanced, as she had gotten into the habit of congratulating herself for being. But, she saw, she was balanced on a very narrow perch.

We're lucky we don't have to share. Lots of people have to—you told me so yourself." "Share?" Gittel had looked appalled. Chaim remembered the face she'd made at the time, adding, "Papa, we have so little, how could we possibly share?" He'd looked at her, shook his head. "Many people have far less, and that you must never forget.

Can lives that are merely constant be happy? If you asked Tom how he felt, he would have counted these out: wood, wind, waves. Not happy perhaps, but content. Ride Me Like a Wave (Stars anthology)

You can fill no bag with regrets.

Lady Catherine quoting Lizzie Bennet: She had the impudence to reply that, whilst these would be heavy misfortunes, your wife must have such extraordinary sources of happiness necessarily attached to her situation, that she could, upon the whole, have no cause to repine.

I had an alarm, I had nerve gas, I had a yogurt. What more could anyone want?

you see what I'm saying? Mooner said. Something else always comes along. You go to jail, you don't have to worry about anything. No rent to pay. No food bill to sweat. Free dental plan. And that's worth something, dude.You don't wnat to stick your nose up at free dental.

Once again, the key to true happiness is lowered expectations.

There was an air of satisfaction to the house at the end of the day. Maybe the day hadn't gone exactly right, but the day had been lived and the house had been there for its family.

I'm done with men. I have a hamster. That's all I need.

I don't want a new man. I'll be dead someday, my mother said. And then what? You'll wish you had someone. I have a hamster.

Pretty," he said. "The wine?" "You." I was wearing a white T-shirt and striped pajama bottoms with a drawstring waist. My feet were bare and my hair was down and disorderly. "This would be perfect if we were in my apartment and not yours, and you were spending the night," he said.

Her concept of paradise was something more immediate: a book and a blanket beneath a tree, where she might read in peace.

Ramos drank a shot, then he lit up and dragged the smoke deep into his lungs. 'Ahh, he said on the exhale. Sometimes I envy people who smoke. They always look so happy when they suck in that first lungful of tar. I can't think of many things that make me that happy. Maybe birthday cake.

key to true happiness is lowered expectations.

He rushed to the dish, crammed everything into his cheeks, and rushed back to his soup can, where he hunkered in butt side out, vibrating with happiness and good fortune. That's the neat part about a hamster. It doesn't take much to make a hamster happy.

He had one foot on the floor, one foot hanging over the armrest, and Carl was sleeping on his chest. It was endearing

Being alone is different from being lonely, you know.

Lula got into line, and I relaxed in Ranger's Mercedes. Vlatko was out of the picture. Ranger was safe. I was wearing my own underwear. Life was good.

I figure happiness is a choice that you make.

It's like they had early aspirations that didn't turn out and eventually they settled into a comfortable undemanding existence.