Quotes About Contentment

I'm not really a partier, in general. I've definitely learned that that's probably the least interesting thing you can do with your time.

YouÂ''ve got to understand that everything has its time. I had wonderful years as a boxer, I achieved everything. I donÂ't miss anything.

I wouldn't change being married. It was good for me, and I was happy for a period of time, and I learned a lot about myself.

I had a pleasant time with my mind, for it was happy.

I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.

If I didn't get fond I could be happy all the time.

You're so consumed with how much you get, you waste your time with hate and regret.

...and we sat like that, one creature in two bodies, for a long time, until I forgot what I'd been upset about and I was myself again.

Neat trick: to be roused to ambition and reconciled to one's mediocrity at the same time.

After all this time, I know exactly where I belong.

Tristan and Yvaine were happy together. Not forever-after, for Time, the thief, eventually takes all things into his dusty storehouse, but they were happy, as these things go, for a long while

Wheresoever she was, there was Eden.

Let us not be too particular. It is better to have old second-hand diamonds than none at all.

If everyone was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.

How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.

I don't want no better book than what your face is.

I was born lazy. I am no lazier now than I was forty years ago, but that is because I reached the limit forty years ago. You can't go beyond possibility.

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

A fully belly is little worth where the mind is starved.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

There is no such thing as material covetousness. All covetousness is spiritual. ...Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment.

Yes - en I's rich now, come to look at it. I owns myself, en I's wuth eight hund'd dollars. I wisht I had de money, I wouldn' want no mo'.

Never regret anything that made you smile

I deserve it all. Let the cold world do its worst; one thing I know--there's a grave somewhere for me. The world may go on just as its always done, and take everything from me--loved ones, property, everything--but it can't take that. Some day I'll lie down in it and forget it all, and my poor broken heart will be at rest.