Quotes About Contentment

The road to happiness, Genevieve, is perhaps the road to oblivion.

She's one of those people who think happiness is legitimate.

Manusia yang tak mau gelisah, sesungguhnya dia telah mati

You think I'm drunk and talking nonsense? I'm not. I would know she was being well taken care of, and I could go pleasantly to seed here in the mountains. It would be a fine, quiet feeling.

Ninguna de las cosas que más queremos en la vida es de naturaleza física.

Happy people have no reason to think. They live rather than question living.

If we could all come to see our consumer products as tools that help us to live our real lives—rather than as substitutes and surrogates for that life—we would need many fewer products to be happy.

Happiness is not an absolute value. It is a state of comparison.

Maybe it doesn't matter that life never blossomed into something larger than itself.

Between propriety and joy choose joy.

They caught up with each other's news casually, leaving long, cosy gaps of silence in which to go to work on their muffins and coffees. Jerome - after two months of having to be witty and brilliant in a strange town among strangers - appreciated the gift of it. People talk about the happy quiet that can exist between two lovers, but this too was great; sitting between his sister and his brother, saying nothing, eating. ~ on the comforts of home.

Leah watches Natalie stride over to her beautiful kitchen with her beautiful child. Everything behind those French doors is full and meaningful. The gestures, the glances, the conversations that can't be heard. How do you get to be so full? And so full of only meaningful things?

But it's hard, when you're at a loose end yourself, to be happy for others

Beggars cannot be choosers.

What do you want to do Marvin? croaked Alex, and then coughed the frog out. Excuse me? Apart from being a milk operative. I mean, what do you want to do with you life? Marvin eloquently groaned, like a disappointed academic, and slapped his own forehead. I tell you something, yeah? Das an idiot's question, yeah? Life is going to do things to me. And that's all there is. And it's all good. Yogurts?

At least then, we have the satisfaction of a little short-term pleasure instead of a lifetime of feeling inadequate.

But it's hard, when you're at a loose end yourself, to be happy for others.

They don't mind what their kids do in life as long as they're reasonably, you know, healthy. Happy. And every single fucking day is not this huge battle between who they are and who they should be, what they were and what they will be.

Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never ­being satisfied.

Was it wrong to hope to be happy?

Laimingas tas, kur? aploja kvailiai,nes jo siela niekada jiems nepriklausys

Our elders say that an elephant does not find its own trunk heavy.

Remember, if God doesn't give you what you want, that's because it's not what you need.

And you must forget what you are—were—I mean, and be happy. When you remember that old life you are bitter, and it hurts me.