344 quotes found
“You’re all so obsessed with other worlds, you’re so convinced that this one is crap and everywhere else is great, but you’ve never bothered to figure out what’s going on here!”
“In the widely open cup of the armchair was I-330. I, on the floor, embracing her limbs, my head on her lap. We were silent. Everything was silent. Only the pulse was audible. Like a crystal I was d...”
“She had nothing to wish otherwise, but that the days did not pass so swiftly. It was a delightful visit;—perfect, in being much too short.”
“No, of course not. I just feel content,” she said carefully.“That’s an old person’s word,” said Ethan.”
“Happiness was not a word that seemed to apply anymore, when she had lost so many close to her. There was a contentment that felt deeper, that acknowledged and accepted the quieter offerings of smal...”
“She pats my knee. I’m going to tell you something my grandmother told me when I was fifteen years old. `Eliza, you won’t ever be content with someone if you can’t learn how to be content by yoursel...”
“Everything that is truly of value–love, family, peace, health, and contentment—can never be bought.”
“A man may be absolutely poor and dispossessed of everything, and yet be wordly. Another man may be very wealthy and yet severed. Severance means that one's heart must not be attached to the things ...”
“We call bad one who rejects the fruit he is given for the fruit he is expecting or the fruit he was given last time.”
“You know someone's okay if they can ignore things they can't do anything about and move on.”
“Walden is the report of a man torn by two powerful and opposing drives – the desire to enjoy the world and the urge to set the world straight.”
“When we turn life’s little pleasures into remedies for life’s troubles, we are setting up idols in our hearts, which actually push God aside.”
“I live wherever you are cos honestly there's no better place to call home.”
“Contentment should not be confused with smugness… Contentment is being happy despite of the successes and failures.”
“Don’t Seek Happiness - Happiness is like an orgasm: if you think about it too much, it goes away. Keep busy and aim to make someone else happy, and you might find you get some as a side effect. We ...”
“Indeed, I have observed one ingredient, somewhat necessary in a man’s composition towards happiness, which people of feeling would do well to acquire; a certain respect for the follies of mankind: ...”
“That was bliss. Being cared for. Wanted. Feeling so necessary to someone’s existence that there was no place for the loneliness inside her.”
“It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.”
“Perhaps it's because I appreciate all I have so much that I don't worry about what I haven't got.”
“There are enough resources in the world for everyone.”
