Quotes About Contentment

A cat knows how to be comfortable, how to get the people around it to serve it. In a tranquil domestic situation, the cat is a veritable manipulative genius. It seeks the soft, it seeks the warm, it prefers the quiet and it loves to be full. It displays, when it gets its own way in these matters, a degree of contentment we would all like to emulate.

For me a house or an apartment becomes a home when you add one set of four legs, a happy tail, and that indescribable measure of love that we call a dog.

Cats are a tonic, they are a laugh, they are a cuddle, they are at least pretty just about all of the time and beautiful some of the time.

Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole

There must be something deep within our memory as a species that is pleased by being able to look at what is making us warm.

I believe that if, at the end, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do. To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try. I didn't always know this, and am happy I lived long enough to find it out.

I am not a believer, not an atheist, not an agnostic. I am more content with questions than answers.

As the man says in the play, for this relief, much thanks.

There is a children's film made for the world we should live in, rather than the one we occupy. A film with no villains. No fight scenes. No evil adults. No fighting between the two kids. No scary monsters. No darkness before the dawn. A world that is benign. A world where if you meet a strange, towering creature in the forest, you curl up on its tummy and have a nap.

His priorities for a rich and contented life were friendship, freedom, the pleasures of an examined life, and enough food and shelter to keep body and soul together.

Life is sufficiently furnished that one need not go looking about for extra guilt.

I had run out of causes and was close as I ever might be to peace.

Depression is a red herring, said Nariman. I think a lot about the past, it's true. But at my age, the past is more present than the here and now. and there is not much percentage in the future.

He kept looking for new experiences, and though he was very successful at everything he attempted, it did not bring him happiness. Remember this, success alone does not bring happiness. Nor does failure have to bring unhappiness.

I live in my suffering and that makes me happy. Anything that keeps me from living in my suffering is unbearable to me.

The will to possess must cease--but also the *non* will to possess must not be seen.

My greatest skill has been to want little. —HENRY DAVID THOREAU, WALDEN A

The most effectual means of being secure against pain is to retire within ourselves and to suffice for our own happiness.

At times Jacky wrote about King's College as if it were a swank resort staffed with servile employees hired to wait upon him, assuring his mother that "there has nothing been omitted by my good friend Doctor Cooper which was necessary to my contentment in this place.

That bust I can never forget,' one young visitor remembered, 'for the old lady always paused before it in her tour of the rooms and, leaning on her cane, gazed and gazed, as if she could never be satisfied.

He never seemed to take great pleasure in his accomplishments, and for the rest of his life, he craved a restful but elusive peace.

They say there's peace if you can relinquish desire. For me desire's absence has only ever left a dull persistent ache.

I've got everything I need. That's the definition of affluence.

People live, and then they die, and as long as they do both things properly, there's nothing much to regret.