Quotes About Contentment

I want nothing. I just want the emptiness to mean something.

Nem szívesen távozom a világból, nagyon nem szívesen, de remélem, nem dolgomvégezetlenül megyek. Megtettem mindent ami erÅ'mbÅ'l tellett.

I've been very happy with women. Desperately happy. Unbearably happy. So happy that I could not believe it; that it was like being drunk or crazy. But never as happy as with my children

In the day time the street was dusty, but at night the dew settled the dust and the old man liked to sit late because he was deaf and now at night it was quiet and he felt the difference

I wish I had a stone for the knife,» the old man said after he had checked the lashing on the oar butt. «I should have brought a stone.» You should have brought many things, he thought. But you did not bring them, old man. Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.

Pray for anything you like, if it is for the good of us all. -I pray for beer, for meat and for a new wife with hard hands. You can share the wife.

When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest. The only thing that could spoil a day was people and if you could keep from making engagements, each day had no limits. People were always the limiters of happiness

Here he was, settled on the island, when he could as well be in Africa. Hell, he thought, I can always go there. You have to make it inside of yourself wherever you are. You are doing all right at that here.

Happiness is often presented as being very dull but, he thought, lying awake, that is because dull people are sometimes very happy and intelligent people can and do go around making themselves and everyone else miserable. He had never found happiness dull.

The one who is doing the work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one poverty is hard on. Heminway talking about his wife Hadley

By then I knew that everything good and bad left emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, the emptiness filled up by itself. If it was good you could only fill it by finding something better.

finding you were able to make something up; to create truly enough so that it made you happy to read it; and to do this every day you worked was something that gave a greater pleasure than any I had ever known.

In those days you did not really need anything, not even the rabbit's foot, but it was good to feel it in your pocket.

We both touched wood on the café table and the wait came to see what it was we wanted. But what we wanted not he, nor anyone else, nor knocking on wood or marble, as this café table-top was, could ever bring us. But we did not know it that night and we were very happy.

We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other. 'I

Wenn der Frühling kam, selbst der trügerische Frühling, gab es keine Probleme außer dem, wo man am glücklichsten sein würde. Das einzige, was einen Tag verderben konnte, waren Menschen, und wenn man vermeiden konnte, Verabredungen zu treffen, so war jeder Tag ohne Grenzen. Menschen waren immer die Begrenzer des Glücks, bis auf die sehr wenigen, die so gut waren wie der Frühling selbst.

No. Rien à faire. Rien. Faut pas penser. Faut accepter.

Sad nije vrijeme da razmišljaš o onome što ti fali. Radije razmišljaj o tome šta možeš s onim što imaš.

It was hard work walking uphill. His muscles ached and the day was hot but Nick felt happy. He felt he had left everything behind, the need for thinking, the need to write, other needs. It was all back of him.

There are only two places in the world where we can live happy: at home and in Paris.

You have youth, confidence and a job. You have everything.

There is no way for you to get what you need and you will never have what you want again. But there are various palliative measures you should take. Go ahead. Take one.

Avrei bisogno di una pietra, per il coltello» disse il vecchio dopo avere esaminato la legatura sull'impugnatura del remo. «Avrei dovuto portare una pietra.» Avresti dovuto portare molte cose, pensò. Ma non le hai portate, vecchio. Ora non è il momento di pensare a quello che non hai. Pensa a quello che puoi fare con quello che hai.

You see, Mr. Barnes, it is because I have lived very much that now I can enjoy everything so well.