Quotes About Contentment

That trains mostly stay on rails, that the streets are mostly peaceful, that the square continues green and quiet below my window is more than I have any right to expect, and it happens every day.

Lord, my deep joy is not in what I am — or used to be — as a mere human being. Instead, "all my springs of joy are in You" (Psalm 87:7, NASB). I

Music is like outer space, Benny. No need for flying to some other place. Everything is so beautiful right here.

What makes a person want so much? What gives things the power to enchant, and is there any limit to the desire for more?

I should only make myself ridiculous in my own eyes if I clung to life and hugged it when it has no more to offer.

For most humans throughout history, "more" wasn't even an option. "Enough" was the goal and was, by definition, enough.

We waited, eating resilient, deeply satisfying bread dipped in spicy oil that tasted exactly like fresh olives. Doug reached out and stroked my knee and I had a sudden conscious thought that I was happy.

I got back into the car thinking how lucky I was to be aware of happiness. Most people don't recognize their own good fortune until it has departed. And then it is too late." "What about Remy? What

the secret to life is finding joy in ordinary things.

I got back into the car thinking how lucky I was to be aware of happiness!

When you attain my age you will understand one of life's great secrets: Luxury is best appreciated in small portions. When it becomes routine it loses its allure.

Cleaning bored her. She was happiest when sitting about and reading. She had read thousands of books, seeing no point in doing anything else unless you had to.

If everyone could feel as I felt at that moment, dressed in my preppy sweater and McGregor coat and about to set out on a little journey with my Bambi-eyed girlfriend on Christmas Eve, all conflicts in the world would vanish. Mellow smiles would rule the earth.

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People were infected with the concept that happiness was something outside themselves

Find something that, when you're doing it, makes you feel like you don't have anywhere to go. If you don't find it, you'll end up having to go somewhere you don't want to.

Al vivir, el hombre siente que es todas las personas y todas las cosas, así que no puede anhelar nada puesto tiene todo lo que es posibe tener, y al sentirse todo, no puede hacer daño a nadie ni a nada pues nadie hace daño a uno mismo

People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness.

When I get up in the morning, I go right back to bed again. I feel best in the evening the moment I put out the light and pull the feather-bed over my head. I sit up once more, look around the room with indescribable satisfaction, and then good night, down under the feather-bed.

The person whose joy is dependant upon certain conditions is not himself joyful; his joy, after all, is that of the conditions and is conditional upon them.

I raise myself up once more, look about the room with an indescribable peace of mind, and then it's goodnight, down under the eiderdown.

The unhappy person is one who has his ideal, the content of his life, the fullness of his consciousness, the essence of his being, in some manner outside of himself. The unhappy man is always absent from himself, never present to himself. But one can be absent, obviously, either in the past or in the future. This adequately circumscribes the entire territory of the unhappy consciousness.

People say the good Lord fills the stomach before the eyes. I haven't noticed; my eyes have had enough and I am weary of everything, and yet I hunger.

The philistine tranquillises himself with the trivial.