Quotes About Contentment

Human: That's stupid. Isn't there grass on both sides?

When even those who should be happy by any reasonable measure are also not happy, there's got to be a serious systemic problem in humanity's culture.

Humanity is always looking for the next great world, the next frontier. I wonder how different this world would be if we were content with where we were.

I'm not trying to redefine sexuality or humanity or say that my answer is right and yours is wrong. I'm just happy with who I am.

It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.

Happiness is a warm puppy.

I'm at the age now where just putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill.

Fill what is empty, empty what is full, and scratch where it itches.

If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.

The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.

Pride is all very well, but a sausage is a sausage.

Just give me a comfortable couch, a dog, a good book, and a woman. Then if you can get the dog to go somewhere and read the book, I might have a little fun.

Don't eat till you're full, eat till you're tired.

No one in the world gets what they want and that is beautiful.

Good humor is one of the preservatives of our peace and tranquility.

I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.

I was deeply unhappy, but I didn't know it because I was so happy all the time.

Good-humor is the clear blue sky of the soul.

Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.

When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone.

Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.

Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement.

We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.