Quotes About Contentment

Hae you got everything you need in the shape of-of tea?

If truth is the end of life, happiness is the mode of it, to be cherished in its brief and tremulous moment.

He liked his barber shop

It seemed a tragedy to want nothing – and yet he wanted something, something. He knew in flashed what is was – some path of hope to lead him towards what he thought was an imminent and ominous old age.

There was suddenly no question on his mind, no eternal problem for a solution and resolution. He had experienced an emotion that was neither mental nor physical, nor merely a mixture of the two, and the love of life absorbed him for the present to the exclusion of all else. He was content to let the experiment remain isolated and unique.

I just think of people," she continued, "whether they seem right where they are and fit into the picture. I don't mind if they don't do anything. I don't see why they should; in fact it always astonishes me when anybody does anything." "You don't want to do anything?" "I want to sleep

Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy--one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link between past and future pleasure but turn out to have been the pleasure itself.

They weren't happy, and neither of them had touched the chicken or the ale - and yet they weren't unhappy either.

I began to bawl because I had everything I wanted and knew I would never be so happy again.

Oh, blessed are the simple rich, for they inherit the earth!

I just think of people, she continued, whether they seem right where they are and fit into the picture. I don't mind if they don't do anything. I don't see why they should; in fact it always astonishes me when anybody does anything. You don't want to do anything? I want to sleep.

I'd be a God Damned fool to live anywhere else.

If there is such a thing as complete happiness, it is knowing that you are in the right place.

Idgie smiled back at her and looked up into the clear blue sky that reflected in her eyes and she was as happy as anybody who is in love in the summertime can be.

Depression years come back to me now as the happy times, even though we were all struggling. We were happy and didn't know it.

Oh, I know a lot of people struggle, wondering is there really a God. They sit and think and worry over it all their life. The good Lord had to make smart people but I don't think he did them any favors because it seems the smart ones start questioning things from the get go. But I never did. I'm one of the lucky ones. I thank God every night, my brain is just perfect for me, not too dumb, not too bright.

It's kind of funny, really, all these years, everybody has been so busy trying to figure what life was all about, and all the while, it was just something for us to enjoy.

You cain't dwell on sadness, oh, it'll make you sick faster than anything in this world.

Can any of you by worrying add a single hour to your span of life?' Luke 12:25.

My Aunt Bess is about sixty-five years old and has never been married. She told me that they may put Miss on her tombstone, but that she hasn't missed a thing.

Of course, she seems happy, Mabel," said Mrs. Gumms, "but you know, no woman is really happy without a home and children." Mrs. Bell said, "I'm not so sure about that. Oh, not that I don't love Lloyd and the children, but still…it might be nice to have a little time to myself every once in a while.

And you can't be happy and in a rage at the same time.

The more you want the more you suffer. If you want everything you must suffer everything.

Done. I have a date. Well, hot damn!