Quotes About Contentment

There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

Happiness comes from ... some curious adjustment to life.

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do.

He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper; but he is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstances.

Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.

Life is not always what one wants it to be, but to make the best of it as it is, is the only way of being happy.

Having a goal is a state of happiness.

For me it is sufficient to have a corner by my hearth, a book and a friend, and a nap undisturbed by creditors or grief.

I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.

The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of God just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things of life.

Seldom can the heart be lonely, If it seeks a lonelier still; Self-forgetting, seeking only Emptier cups of love to fill.

1 am happy and content because I think I am.

There is work that is work and there is play that is play; there is play that is work and work that is play. And in only one of these lie happiness.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a life-purpose. ... Get your happiness out of your work or you will never know what real happiness is. ... Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.

All the wealth of the world cannot be compared with the happiness of living together happily united.

The simple truth is that happy people generally don't get sick.

The best things in life aren't things.

Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.

Joy has nothing to do with material things, or with a man's outward circumstance ... a man living in the lap of luxury can be wretched, and a man in the depths of poverty can overflow with joy.

Getting what you go after is success; but liking it while you are getting it is happiness.

With happiness comes intelligence to the heart.

Best trust the happy moments. ... The days that make us happy make us wise.

It is comparison that makes men happy or miserable.

Let him that would be happy for a day, go to the barber; for a week, marry a wife; for a month, buy him a new horse; for a year, build him a new house; for all his lifetime, be an honest man.