Quotes About Contentment

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.

Happiness is a way station between too little and too much.

Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you will cease to be so.

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.

Happiness comes fleetingly now and then to those who have learned to do without it, and to them only.

Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.

Happiness lies in the consciousness we have of it.

Those who are the most happy appear to know it the least; happiness is something that for the most part seems to mainly consist in not knowing it.

We are all happy, if we only knew it.

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

Happiness is a rare plant that seldom takes root on earth-few ever enjoyed it, except for a brief period; the search after it is rarely rewarded by the discovery, but there is an admirable substitute for it... a contented spirit.

If all were gentle and contented as sheep, all would be as feeble and helpless.

If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual... would be, I think, an American cow.

The more the heart is sated with joy, the more it becomes insatiable.

No man is happy unless he believes he is.

That man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of a life.

Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

As the sergeant said to the recruit: "You might as well be happy, mate - no one cares if you ain't."

Most folk are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty and wealth have both failed.