Quotes About Contentment

Happiness compresses time, makes it dense and bright, pocketsized.

What should I do if my problems aren't all solved by the time I die?

As a boy, I didn't need a lot of playmates to have a good time.

If you live below your means, you can turn down stuff all the time.

There was no active, conscious decision-making point, just a gradual realization over time that I'm very happy minus children and marriage.

It's not a bad time to be me.

If we spent as much time feeling positive about getting older, as we do trying to stay young, how much different our lives would be.

Instead of expecting all and being lowered into despair each time I get less, I expect nothing now and, occasionally, I get a little, and am more than a little happy.

I keep life filled and speeded up so that I can cheat myself into believing that I am happy and contented, but oh! When night comes and I go to bed and turn out the lights, I lie there in the dark, I realize the absolute futility of trying to kid myself.

She could stand anything. Tara was worth it all. For a brief moment, it was mid-summer and the afternoon skies were blue and she lay drowsily in the thick clover of Tara's lawn, looking up at the billowing cloud castles, the fragrance of white blossoms in her nose and the pleasant humming of bees in her ears. Afternoon and hush and the far-off sounds of the wagons coming in from the spiraling red fields. Worth it all, worth more.

Winning isn't everything, Eisenhower said faintly. Sometimes, just knowing your family's safe and healthy and alive is even better.

Winning isn't everything," Eisenhower said faintly. "Sometimes, just knowing your family's safe and healthy and alive is even better." "Did Vince Lombardi say that?" Reagan asked. "Or Shakespeare?" "No," Eisenhower said. "I did.

Tas strolled along the Haven Road, flourishing his hoopak, enjoying the day and reflecting that if he had known marriage would be this exciting, he would have done it a long time ago.

He is very short-sighted and thus walks happily through this world blind to all its ugliness. For him, daily life passes in a pleasant blur.

Die now! For you can never be as happy as you are at this moment and it would be better to die with this feeling in your heart than know the bitterness of its loss.

It's as if they were happy, and as if it came from outside themselves. And I have nothing like that.

I want to belong to myself, to own something, not necessarily something very wonderful, but something which is mine, a place of my own, maybe only one room, but mine. Why sometimes I even find myself dreaming of a gas stove.

And I have nothing like that. My mother says, This one will never be satisfied with anything. I think I'm beginning to see my life.

She seems to be in a state of what can only be described as unbearable well-being.

You can see as many towns as you like but it never gets you anywhere. And once you have stopped looking, there you are, exactly where you were before.

La vie est atroce ; nous savons cela. Mais précisément parce que j'attends peu de choses de la condition humaine, les périodes de bonheur, les progrès partiels, les efforts de recommencement, et de continuité me semblent autant de prodiges qui compensent presque l'immense masse des maux, des échecs, de l'incurie et de l'erreur.

toda felicidad me da casi siempre la cordura.

Any happiness is a masterpiece.

quand je vois combien peu de gens lisent L'Iliade d'Homère, je prends plus gaiement mon parti d'être peu lu. (La conversation à Innsbruck)