Quotes About Contentment

When I was young I used to think that wealth and power would bring me happiness. I was right.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Happy is he that chastens himself.

Happy is he who learns to bear what he cannot change!

Better be happy than wise.

It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance.

Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion.

A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be.

He is rich who hath enough to be charitable.

My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.

As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.

There is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.

Most human beings have an absolute and infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

Peace, truthfully, is how you feel inside.

I try to be grateful for the abundance of the blessings that I have, for the journey that I'm on and to relish each day as a gift.

Poor people are those who only work to try to keep an expensive lifestyle and always want more and more.

To try to become happy is to try to build a machine with no other specifications than it shall run noiselessly.

I think that the only pure thing we have in life is to try to be happy.

'Sunrise Sunset' is about trying to get to a place where life is simple and not letting the stress and happenings in the world get in the way of your happiness.

I think happiness really happens when you least expect it: it's when you're not really thinking about it, when you're not trying to achieve it, when you're not trying to get the perfect holiday, the perfect life, the perfect body, the perfect existence.

If you go about trying to please everyone, there's going to be endless struggles.

I don't think I'm alone in this: I'm obsessed with trying to not only be happy but maintain happiness, but my definition of happiness is skewed more towards ecstasy rather than contentment.

I reckon I've done my bit. I want to enjoy myself a bit now, with less responsibility, less frantic rushing about, less preparation, less trying to think of something to say.