Quotes About Contentment

So much of me longs to run after him and cry, 'Yes, yes, yes!' A few hours ago, when I wrote I could never mean anything to him, such a chance would have seemed heaven on earth. And surely I could give him - a sort of contentment? That isn't enough to give. Not for the giver.

What I'd really hate would be the settled feeling, with nothing but happiness to look forward to.

Is it wrong for me to feel so happy? Perhaps I ought even to feel guilty? No. I didn't make it happen, and it can't hurt anyone but me. Surely I have a right to my joy. For as long as it lasts...

I feel quite unreasonably happy this minute, watching them both; knowing I can go and join them in the warmth, yet staying here in the cold.

perhaps it is the loving that counts, not the being loved in return - that perhaps true loving can never know any thing but happiness.

What with books and chocolate, there's not much else you could have in it, is there?

A thousand pounds for clothes — when one thinks how long poor people could live on it! When one thinks how long we could live on it, for that matter! Oddly, I have never thought of us as poor people — I mean, I have never been terribly sorry for us, as for the unemployed or beggars; though really we have been rather worse off, being unemployable and with no one to beg from.

Let's enjoy the aimless days while we still can.

Sounds like a boring life. I hope it lasts forever, she said.

I think pleasure is in the moment more than in the thing.

The view is endlessly fulfilling. It is like the answer to a lifetime of questions and vague cravings.

For most people there are only two places in the world. Where they live and their TV set.

Peace of mind, purpose, true fellowship.

What well being in a barefoot piss after a strenuous and proper screw.

I am never so happy aswhen I am broke, and lately I have been happy all the time. - Mehitabel the Cat

Perhaps you're not finished with your story, and who knows if you'll ever finish it or not. Honestly, it's not that important.

However, the majority of people mistakenly judge external things to be 'good' and therefore experience feelings of desire for things beyond their control, leading to frustration and suffering.

And Harold came into Perpetua's apartment. He said, 'I just want to know one thing. Are you happy?' 'Sure,' Perpetua said. (Donald Barthelme, Perpetua)

It's almost relaxing to know I'll die fairly soon, as it's a comfort not to obsess about my next orgasm.

Now and then, especially at night, solitude loses its soft power and loneliness takes over. I am grateful when solitude returns.

I think the things we want most in life, the things we think will set us free, are not the thing we need.

Humans are designed to seek comfort and order, and so if they have comfort and order, they tend to plant themselves, even if their comfort isn't all that comfortable. And even if they secretly want for something better.

There are things you cannot understand, and you must learn to live with this. Not only must you learn to live with this, you must learn to enjoy this.

Job found contentment and even joy, outside the context of comfort, health or stability. He understood the story was not about him, and he cared more about the story then he did about himself.