contentment Quotes

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

I really love idiot, enlightened characters - these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances; they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them.

I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home.

Why should I be unhappy? Every parcel of my being is in full bloom.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else.

I never go anywhere. I do sketches and make phone calls, and people visit. It's more fun to come to Paris.