“ The search for contentment is, therefore, not merely a self-preserving and self-benefiting act, but also a generous gift to the world. Clearing out all your misery gets you out of the way. You cease b… Elizabeth Gilbert
“ The green thumb is equable in the face of nature's uncertainties; he moves among her mysteries without feeling the need for control or explanations or once-and-for-all solutions. To garden well is to… Michael Pollan
“ Some things are hard to imagine. Can you conceive of excessive contentment, for example? Or an over pleasant evening? Too much happiness? Alan Moore
“ No man should ever completely realize his dreams. What else would there then be to live for? David Gemmell
“ I spit on your happiness! I spit on your idea of life--that life that must go on, come what may. You are all like dogs that lick everything they smell. You with your promise of a humdrum happiness--pr… Jean Anouilh
“ En vivant votre misère, vous pouvez être malheureuse ou heureuse. C'est dans ce choix que consiste votre liberté. Vous êtes libre de fondre votre individualité dans la marmite de la multitude avec un… Milan Kundera
“ Are you happy?I am content.What is the difference?Between happiness and contentment? Ah, there you have me. It is not easy to put into words. Contentment is a state of mind and body when the two work… Daphne du Maurier
“ When you have little children, you want to tell them about joy and happiness and hope. And then comes the time you want to tell them there are tough moments. I admire people who can do that. Peter Sis
“ I look better feel better make love better and I'll tell you something else ... I never lied better. George Burns
“ As the sergeant said to the recruit: "You might as well be happy mate - no one cares if you ain't." Ralph Ricketts
“ Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others And in their pleasure takes joy even as though t'were his own. Johann von Goethe
“ Happiness is to be found along the way not at the end of the road for then the journey is over and it is too late. Robert R. Updegraff
“ Everyone only goes around the track once in life and if you don't enjoy that trip it's pretty pathetic. Gary Rogers
“ A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live. Bertrand Russell
“ Happiness is a resultant of the relative strengths of positive and negative feelings rather than an absolute amount of one or the other. Norman Bradburn
