Quotes About Contentment

I am a happy person and I choose to be a positive person. I think some people think my life has been tragic and there have been these horrible dramas but things really have been, and are, fine.

We wanted, it seemed, what we already had, a lover and a friend to create with, side by side. To be loyal, yet be free.

We learned we wanted too much. We could only give from the perspective of who we were and what we had. Apart, we were able to see with even greater clarity that we didn't want to be without each other.

Nothing bothered me, not even the things that bothered me.

Those were mystical times. An era of small pleasures.

May the world's small things fill her with delight.

You can never pay too much for peace of mind.

A particular joy of good weather. an amiable lightness I easily succumb to.

I loved my coat and the cafe and my morning routine. It was the clearest and simplest expression of my solitary identity.

Herkes ölür," demi?ti yava? yava? güçlerini kaybeden ellerine bakarak. "Fakat ben bunun böyle olaca??n? önceden tahmin edememi?tim i?te. Ama sorun de?il. Hayat?m? istedi?im gibi ya?ad?m.

I never did quite fit the glamour mode. It is life with my husband and family that is my high now.

Man does not live by GNP alone.

What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life.

We're okay." I don't know why I say that. Sometimes good manners are a curse.

It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not.

In other words: It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not. Or, more bluntly: Wherever I am not is the place where I am myself. Or else, taking the bull by the horns: Anywhere out of the world.

you can survive only if nothing is necessary to you

You must get used to doing with as little as you can. By wanting less, you are content with less, and the less you need, the better off you are.

But it would be wrong to say you were unhappy there, for you had no trouble adjusting to your reduced circumstances, you found it invigorating to learn that you could get by on almost nothing, and as long as you were able to write, it made no difference where or how you lived.

I want to talk about happiness and well being, about those rare, unexpected moments when the voice in your head goes silent and you feel at one with the world.

That was the real difference, Ferguson concluded. Not too little money or too much money, not what a person did or failed to do, not buying a larger house or a more expensive car, but ambition. That explained why Brownstein and Solomon managed to float through their lives in relative peace—because they weren't tormented by the curse of ambition.

That's how it is with want. As long as you lack something, you yearn for it without cease. If only I could have that one thing, you tell yourself, all my problems would be solved. But once you get it, once the object of your desires is thrust into your hands, it begins to lose its charm. Other wants assert themselves, other desires make themselves felt, and bit by bit you discover that you're right back where you started.

He was not trying to buy happiness, but simply an absence of unhappiness.

The boundaries of my world had shrunk, but I was still alive, and as long as I could go on breathing and farting and thinking my thoughts, what difference did it make where I was?