Quotes About Contentment

People are living too much or too little, and I wondered if anyone out there is living the right amount.

I spent years being angry with God because He never gave me the husband I wanted. All those years gone, wasted! I should have enjoyed each day as it came and recognized that if I remained single it was because God knew singleness was best for me.

My point is, you can have everything and still not have enough.

To find fulfillment...don't exist with life - embrace it.

I can look at my books with pleasure from a distance. Four feet is close enough.

None of us live happily forever after. But we can choose to be happy today.

I challenge anybody in their darkest moment to write what they're grateful for, even stupid little things like green grass or a friendly conversation with somebody on the elevator. You start to realize how rich you are.

Isn't it cool when the days that are supposed to feel good, actually do?

I think I could go away tomorrow. I've already accomplished something. It's such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself.

Isn't it cool when the days that are supposed to feel good, actually do?

To sit in this awful mess and maybe smoke some dope and watch some innocuous shit on a dumb glass tube and feel fine about it and know there's really nothing you have to do, ever, but feel your warm friend's silent content. You don't feel guilty about not fighting a war or carrying signs to protest it either. We've just mastered the life of doing nothing, which when you think about it, may be the hardest thing of all to do.

You worry too much. Take a shower and get some sleep. You'll feel much better later.' She was precious, my wife. If she couldn't screw it or spend it, she'd sleep on it. And either way, wasn't it better than worrying?

Good is the enemy of great. And that is one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes great. We don't have great schools, principally because we have good schools. We don't have great government, principally because we have good government. Few people attain great lives, in large part because it is just so easy to settle for a good life.

that's exactly the good thing about the Injun life--you don't have to stop and think about whether or not you're 'happy'--which in my opinionis a highly overrated human condition invented by white folks

Barring love I'll take my life in large doses alone--rivers, forests, fish, grouse, mountains. Dogs.

I had no idea that throwing away worthless things could bring about such contentment and . . . well . . . joy. Maybe that's true in life too. Get rid of the worthless things that tied you down and held you back.

Mr. Gaddis admitted the school wasn't much to look at before dropping the first match and lighting another. "But it's better than nothing." It is nothing! I screamed. Inside my head, of course. And I might even have said it out loud except I was too shocked to open my mouth. Johnnie Hatter's hole in the riverbank is probably better than this.

There is absolutely nothing that can replace money in the things that money does, but regarding the rest of the things in the world, money is absolutely useless.

In those times when we yearn to have more in our lives, we should dwell on the things we already have. In doing so, we will often find that our lives are already full to overflowing.

What we all seek is not necessarily success but our own comfort zone.

In order to be truly happy in the largest sense of that word, we must have something to do, someone to love, and something to look forward to.

To me, life is like an orchard. You pick the fruit when you see it. For years, I bummed around the world looking for happiness. Then I realized happiness isn't something you find. All the happiness in the world is between your own two ears.

Some people never find it Some only pretend But I just want to live Happily ever after, now and then

I'm just a simple guy, I live from day to day. A ray of sunshine melts my frown and blows my blues away.