Charles Dickens Quotes

There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.

Simply enjoy life and the great pleasures that come with it.

Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.

May peace forever be our lot, and plenteous store abound.

Sitting on a plastic chair at night listening to the sea lapping below while sipping a cold beer is about as good as life gets.

I am a happier person living in a country which has surplus of everything rather than shortages.

For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?

The moment I stopped spending so much time chasing the big pleasure of life. I began to enjoy the little ones, like watching the stars dancing in moonlit sky or soaking in the sunbeams of a glorious summer morning.

Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy -- one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link between past and future pleasure, but turn out to have been the pleasure itself.

It's not about having things figured out, or about communicating with other people, trying to make them understand what you understand. It's about a chicken dinner at a drive-in. A soft pillow. Things that don't need explaining.

Ease, a neutral state between pain and pleasure ... if it is not rising into pleasure will be falling towards pain.

Who doesn't want to be comfortable all day long?

Wherever it goes is my best position. Wherever it goes I am comfortable.

Contentment is a wealth that is never exhausted

That which sufficeth is not little.

Fireside happiness, to hours of ease Blest with that charm, the certainty to please.

Now, I was a fan of the simple pleasures in life: grilled cheese sandwiches without black flecks on the crust, jeans that didn't pinch the better parts of me, an inch of vodka, ten to twelve hours of sleep. - Cole St Clair, Forever.

If I look upon my whole life, I cannot think of another time when I felt more comfortable: when I had no worries, fears, or desires, when my life seemed as soft and lovely as lying inside a cocoon of rose silk.

When you sit right down in the middle of yourself you're gonna wanna have a comfortable chair.

Abundance is about looking at life and knowing that you have everything you need for complete happiness, and then being able to celebrate each and every moment on earth.

I don't think I ever owned twenty pencils at one time. Wearing down seven number-two pencils is a good day's work.

I wish I was at home in my nice hole by the fire, with the kettle just beginning to sing!

In my studio I'm as happy as a cow in her stall. That's the only place where everything is all right.

It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance