Quotes About Contentment

The highest wisdom is continual cheerfulness; such a state, like the region above the moon, is always clear and serene.

True happiness is to understand our duties toward God and man; to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence on the future; not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears, but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is abundantly sufficient.

Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date.

The happiest and most contented people are those who each day perform to make the best of their abilities.

None but those who are happy in themselves can make others so.

Do not worry; eat three square meals a day; say your prayers; be courteous to your creditors; keep your digestion good; exercise; go slow and easy. Maybe there are other things your special case requires to make you happy, but my friend, these I reckon will give you a good life.

The secret of happiness is to count your blessings - not your birthdays.

Life holds so much, so much to be happy about always. Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can be felt only if you don't set any conditions.

Better to be happy than wise.

When ill luck besets us, to ease the tension we have only to remember that happiness is relative. The next time you are tempted to grumble about what has happened to you, why not pause and be glad that it is no worse than it is?

I have found that most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

It is the happiness that comes from within that is lasting and fulfilling.

The ingredients of happiness are so simple that they can be counted on one hand. Happiness comes from within, and rests most securely on simple goodness and clear conscience.

We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

At the end of our time on earth, if we have lived fully, we will not be able to say, "I was always happy." Hopefully, we will be able to say, "I have experienced a lifetime of real moments, and many of them were happy moments."

The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here.

Joy of life seems to me to arise from a sense of being where one belongs ... of being foursquare with the life we have chosen. All the discontented people I know are trying sedulously to be something they are not, to do something they cannot do.

We have a tendency to obscure the forest of simple joys with the trees of problems.

People need joy quite as much as clothing. Some of them need it far more.

Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Joy is your birthright.

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home that answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog that growls every morning, a parrot that swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night.

Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.

One trouble with a kind of falsely therapeutic and always reassuring attitude that it is easy to fall into with old people, is the tendency to be satisfied with too little.