Quotes About Contentment

Most true happiness comes from one's inner life, from the disposition of the mind and soul. Admittedly, a good inner life is difficult to achieve, especially in these trying times. It takes reflection and contemplation and self-discipline.

I don't think that... one gets a flash of happiness once, and never again; it is there within you, and it will come as certainly as death.

Happiness is a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.

Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

If you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of unhappiness.

The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men.

Deliberately to pursue happiness is not the surest way of achieving it. Seek it for its own sake and I doubt whether you will find it.

Happiness comes most to persons who seek it least, and think least about it. It is not an object to be sought, it is a state to be induced. It must follow and not lead. It must overtake you, and not you overtake it.

Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you. It will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us on a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.

It is the very pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her nose all the time.

Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Happiness is not something you get, but something you do.

I am enjoying to a full that period of reflection which is the happiest conclusion to a life of action.

To fill the hour, and leave no crevice ... that is happiness.

If you observe a really happy man, you will find ... that he is happy in the course of living life twenty-four crowded hours of each day.

Happiness walks on busy feet.

The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy.

The busiest man is the happiest man.

Happiness ... can exist only in acceptance.