All Quotes By Tag: Contentment

“Contentment is quite a different thing from pleasure.”

“Besides, beyond question, it takes a certain degree of brainlessness to remain permanently contented with oneself and with everything.”

“Some days just being is enough.”

“All good things must come to an end. That’s why they’re called good things — otherwise they’re just… ordinary.”

“How you feel about home after holiday says a lot about home.”

“Wisdom and contentment are the same thing.”

“It is impossible for your reasons to be unhappy to exceed those to be happy.”

“Although the windblows terribly here,the moonlight also leaksbetween the roof planksof this ruined house.”

“There in bed, happiness comes over me. Not like something that belongs to me, but like a wheel of fire rolling through the room and the world.”

“Happiness” alone does not guarantee mental health and well-being. A tempering dose of disappointment- an occasional taste of frustration and learning that you do recover from it- goes a long way toward producing long-term contentment. Indeed the ability to ride out the bad times without feeling doomed is essential to survival. When happiness is not taken for granted, and when one is acquainted with its opposite it is more easily savored and has more lasting effects.”

“When you say you are in pursuit of happiness, what you essentially mean is that you are expecting your environment to always act in ways that would elicit an emotion of happiness in your heart. It is exactly as absurd as it sounds.”

“The moral? To recognize that our best chance of contentment lies in taking up the wisdom offered to us in coded form through our coughs, allergies, social gaffes, and emotional betrayals, and to avoid the ingratitude of those who blame the peas, the bores, the time, and the weather.”

“I am happy. I am very happy. This morning when I woke up I felt good because the sun was shining. I felt good because I was a frog. And I felt good because I have you as a friend. I wanted to be alone. I wanted to think about how fine everything is.”

“Are you happy,” he asked. “I am.” she said. And then she twisted again the row of bangles on her wrist. “I’m content. My parents are happy.”

“Most people are like all stomachs: they cannot remain satisfied for a long time.”