Joshua Ferris Quotes

Sometimes when I watch my dog, I think about how good life can be, if we only lose ourselves in our stories. Lucy doesn't read self-help books about how to be a dog; she just IS a dog. All she wants to do is chase ducks and sticks and do other things that make both her and me happy. It makes me wonder if that was the intention for man, to chase sticks and ducks, to name animals, to create families, and to keep looking back at God to feed off his pleasure at our pleasure.

I have a pretty easy life.

Don't make things too complicated. Try to relax, enjoy every moment, get used to everything.

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

I always say that the times in my life when I've been happiest are the times when I've seen, like, a sunset.

It is so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done.

Make yourself comfortable in everything you do.

I'm enjoying simplifying things.

My normal life is like being on holiday.

I'm just enjoying my life at the moment.

If I could never work again and I could just listen to music and walk, I'd be very, very happy.

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.

Mellow doesn't always make for a good story, but it makes for a good life.

Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

Simplicity makes me happy.

I don't have a bad relationship. I'm 48 years old. I think life is too short for that. To me, life is... you open the shutters, you see the dogs outside, you look left, you look right, in, what, a second and a half? And that's a life.

We live a happy life, and we don't take anything too seriously.

Comfort is key for me.

If I can be somewhere with sunshine and have bare feet and a book, I'm happy.

I prefer hanging out with my small group of friends, maybe head to the beach once in three months, pursue my hobbies, and just be happy with the small joys of life.

Relax! Life is beautiful!

This is my life: it's an easy life. It's not complicated.

We just wanna be the happy bums that we are. That's all.

Appreciate what you've got and follow your heart and you're all good. Don't over-complicate things.