Quotes About Contentment

The good news is I peed before going to sleep.

You can be happy anywhere, if you have the right point of view. And the ability to ignore the smell of an entire planet.

I don't discount that in the end, everything I do, say, write and am will amount to a whole lot of not much; I just don't think it's a relevant metric. The relevant metric is: Have I constructed a life that gives me happiness, allows me to give happiness, and allows for this life to have meaning within its admittedly limited context? If I am succeeding in this particular metric, I think I'm doing pretty well.

It's better to be a dog in peace, than a man in war.

I'm pretty good at being okay. If nothing

This is why I told Lambert to stop going on about it, you know," Powell said. "All the thinking about the steps beyond what we were directly doing. It never makes you happy. It never solves anything for you, right now.

The sense you're where you're supposed to be, with someone you're supposed to be with.

All the thinking about the steps beyond what we were directly doing. It never makes you happy. It never solves anything for you, right now.

Samantha smiles again and puts her arm around Nick as they walk.

Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.

Perhaps the less we have, the more we are required to brag.

For it is said that humans are never satisfied, that you give them one thing and they want something more. And this is said in disparagement, whereas it is one of the greatest talents the species has and one that has made it superior to animals that are satisfied with what they have.

If he needs a million acres to make him feel rich, seems to me he needs it 'cause he feels awful poor inside hisself, and if he's poor in hisself, there ain't no million acres gonna make him feel rich, an' maybe he's disappointed that nothin' he can do 'll make him feel rich.

Being at ease with himself put him at ease with the world.

You can boast about anything if it's all you have. Maybe the less you have, the more you are required to boast.

It is not good to want a thing too much. It sometimes drives the luck away. You must want it just enough, and you must be very tactful with Gods or the gods.

Sometimes when she was alone, and she knew she was alone, she permitted her mind to play in a garden, and she smiled.

Lennie said quietly, It ain't no lie. We're gonna do it. Gonna get a little place an' live on the fatta the lan'.

It was a morning like other mornings and yet perfect among mornings.

When Kino had finished, Juana came back to the fire and ate her breakfast. They had spoken once, but there is not need for speech if it is only a habit anyway. Kino sighed with satisfaction - and that was conversation.

And in my own life I am not willing to trade quality for quantity.

My wife, my Mary, goes to her sleep the way you would close the door of a closet. So many times I have watched her with envy. Her lovely body squirms a moment as though she fitted herself into a cocoon. She sighs once and at the end of it her eyes close and her lips, untroubled, fall into that wise and remote smile of the Ancient Greek gods. She smiles all night in her sleep, her breath purrs in her throat, not a snore, a kitten's purr... She loves to sleep and sleep welcomes her.

There's a capacity for appetite... that a whole heaven and earth of cake can't satisfy

There is no such thing as just enough money. Only two measures: No Money and Not Enough Money.