Quotes About Contentment

He has achieved success, who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children.

God may allow His servant to succeed when He has disciplined him to a point where he does not need to succeed to be happy. The man who is elated by success and is cast down by failure is still a carnal man. At best his fruit will have a worm in it.

All outward success, when it has value, is but the inevitable result of an inward success of full living, full play and enjoyment of one's faculties.

Out of the strain of the Doing, into the peace of the Done.

The best place to succeed is where you are with what you have.

Bad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely contented with the life he is living, when there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger.

Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.

Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.

Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.

The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditations on the past.

I look back on my life like a good day's work; it is done and I am satisfied with it.

All of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

Happy the man, and happy he alone He can call today his own. He who, secure within can say, "Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today."

Do not look back on happiness, or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.

Be satisfied, and pleased with what thou art, Act cheerfully and well thy allotted part; Enjoy the present hour, be thankful for the past, And neither fear, nor wish, the approaches of the last.

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, nor to anticipate troubles, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.

In order to be utterly happy, the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.

If you are as happy, my dear sir, on entering this house as I am in leaving it and returning home, you are the happiest man in the country.

Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.

The bliss e'en of a moment still is bliss.

I have the happiness of the passing moment, and what more can mortal ask?

The trouble is not that we are never happy-it is that happiness is so episodical.

We must not wish anything other than what happens from moment to moment, all the while, however, exercising ourselves in goodness.