Quotes About Contentment

This was my modest dream come true: unambitious flight. The kind that never even got high enough for a view.

I don't have a love life. I have a like life.' Mamie smiled. She thought how nice that might be, to be peacefully free from love...

I'm bonkers, aren't I? I ask with my mouth full. You're unhappy, says Mr. Fernandez. It can be the same thing. You are unhappy because you believe in such a thing as happy.

A healthy death, like anything — job promotions or looking younger — was simply a matter of "feeling good about yourself." Which is where the sedatives came in. Sedate as a mint, a woman could place a happy hand on the shoulder of death and rasp out, "Waddya say, buddy, wanna dance?

The couple sat side by side on cushions on the floor, quietly eating breakfast from the low table. They munched in happy and enjoyable silence, of the kind that grows like a vine through the long years of a good marriage, so that when everything that needs to be said has already been pronounced, it is mutually understood that there is an intimate silence that has its own loquacity.

It was now possible to wake up in the morning and be amazed and grateful to be yet alive and living in a solid house, and to go to bed at night full of relief at having lived a commonplace and uneventful day.

I used to have nightmare about having petrol poured over me, and being set on fire, and nowadays I have nightmares that I have wooden teeth and that they are continually falling out, as if I had an infinite number of them. It seems that everyone has their own inexplicable fear to have nightmares about. We need nightmares to keep ourselves entertained, and fend off the contentment that we all fear and abhor so much.

We live, he [Gandhi] felt, not in order to feed, clothe, shelter and pamper the body; we provide for the body in order to live. Life begins after the needs of the body have been met, yet how many people ruin life for the sake of rich living. The soul, alas, needs a temporary abode, but a clean mud hut will do as well as a palace, indeed better, for when the physical absorbs the lion's share of a man's effort the spirit languishes, life loses content, and discontent appears.

Browsing through the shelves in bookstores or libraries, I was completely happy.

The wealthy and satisfied do not migrate, they stagnate.

Some folks want the lights of cities, the admiration of women, and the fame that comes with success. Me, I just want the trail unwinding ahead of me, the view from the top of the ridge, and the smell of a wood-smoke fire.

Need and desire have no connection,' I said. 'Many people desire things they do not need. Happiness can be measured by what one does not need, but often to see is to want.

It is a living. It is enough. I am free. The nights are long and quiet, the mornings cool and bright, I live with the sun, the moon, and the stars. The air is fresh where I am, and there is no one to hurry me or to demand this or that of me.

I have education and once I had position. Now I am nobody, but I am happy.

Quit crabbing," Bert said mildly. "We're here now, and we've got to like it.

He was ready to die here—today.  There was nowhere left to go. He knew he had reached the end of his trail and he was content. As

It seems to me that the more money one has the more one worries about little unimportant things.

Need and desire have no connection," I said. "Many people desire things they do not need. Happiness can be measured by what one does not need, but often to see is to want.

Many people desire things they do not need.

Happiness can be measured by what one does not need, but often to see is to want.

And I can get my own phone, said Leslie, with unlimited text messaging! And I can get my car fixed, I said. Or maybe even a new car. Or a new house that already has a swimming pool, said Leslie. And a hot tub, I said. And a game room, and a pool table, said Leslie. And a giant TV with surround sound, and every kind of video game. And, and, and... That's the trouble with money.

Kaira sat on the floor and ate her ice cream right out of the carton.

need a reason to be sad. You don't need a reason to be happy.

Come on, D.J. You can tell me. Why are you so happy?' D.J. looked up at him. He said, 'You need a reason to be sad. You don't need a reason to be happy.