Quotes About Contentment

Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more. All the wealthy, unhappy people you're ever met take sleeping pills; Mobile Infantrymen don't need them. Give a cap trooper a bunk and time to sack out in it and he's as happy as a worm in an apple - asleep.

God made alcohol and he made feet - and he made 'em so you could put 'em together and be happy!

I don't know Who is cranking; I'm pleased He doesn't stop.

I came by my decrepitude the hard way and I propose to enjoy it.

Samuel Clemens put it: Where she was, there was Eden. Omar phrased it: -thou beside me in the wilderness, ah wilderness were paradise enow. Browning termed it Summum Bonum. All were asserting the same great truth, which is for me: Heaven is where Margrethe is.

I made a very important discovery at Camp Currie. Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more. All the wealthy, unhappy people you've ever met take sleeping pills; Mobile Infantrymen don't need them. Give a cap trooper a bunk and time to sack out in it and he's as happy as a worm in an apple—asleep.

Happiness consists in getting enough sleep.

Fiz uma descoberta muito importante no Acampamento Currie: a felicidade consiste em dormir o suficiente. Só isso, mais nada. Todas as pessoas ricas e infelizes que você já conheceu tomam remédio pra dormir; soldados da Infantaria Móvel não precisam disso. Dê um beliche a um soldado e tempo pra se enfiar nele, e ele vai ficar tão feliz quanto um bichinho dentro de uma maçã... dormindo.

He ate what was set before him

She was relaxed with what she was - liked herself as Lazarus thought of it - and liking yourself was the necessary first step toward loving other people.

Look, kids, I've seen every possible type of joy house and pleasure dome. Happiness is in the heart, not in that stuff.

Hice un descubrimiento muy importante en el campamento Currie: la felicidad consiste en dormir suficiente.

All psychological suffering (or happiness, taken in its usual sense) is a matter of comparison.

Later I inquired into the origin of the word happy and found that it derives from the verb to happen. In other words, happiness is to be found simply from observing what happens. If you cannot be happy at the prospect of lunch, you are not likely to find happiness anywhere. What happens is happiness.

No wife, no horse, no mustache

Well, at that point, the only thing to do is relax and enjoy the show.

The point is not to get hung up on being what you're supposed to be. If you can, it's good to do what pleases you.

This thing is going down so good there's not enough O's in smooth.

Wanting more than you can have will spoil what you've got.

After I hung up I felt completed, the way I always did after talking to her, like a plant that had been watered.

And she pressed closer to me and we were silent and I smelled her, and felt her and listened to her, and knew that if I had nothing else but this, this would be enough.

I had my arm around her shoulder. She had her head against my neck. "Postcoital languor," she said, "is almost as good as inducing it.

One taste of the old time sets all to rights.

God's in His heaven— All's right with the world!