Quotes About Contentment

A fly does not mind dying in coconut cream.

If we have not quiet in our own minds, outward comforts will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.

There is plenty of happiness in this life if we only knew it: and one way to find it is, when we have got the old rheumatism to thank Heaven that it ain't the old gout.

Wouldn't it be an exhilarating tonic for the soul to take a moment to appreciate the simple, good things in life which are so bountiful...?

Gray hair is a blessing — ask any bald man.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants and to serve them one's self, so as to have somewhat left to give, instead of being always prompt to grab?

Tucker seemed too happy to smile, his expression solemn and prayerful.

There is no way to peace; peace is the way. There is no way to happiness; happiness is the way. If you are determined, you can do it with your breathing.

Happiness is the sunshine of the soul.

So long as we can lose any happiness we possess some; and it is the truth that most people possess more than they realize, for we know how pathetically often loss reveals what a great quantity has been possessed but not realized.

We cannot be happy if we expect to live all the time at the highest peak of intensity. Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.

If you want to be happy, be grateful.

If you want to be happy, be happy.

One joy scatters a hundred griefs.

A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness, without dreaming of it; but likely enough it is gone the moment we say to ourselves, "Here it is!" like the chest of gold that treasure-seekers find.

Even happiness worries sometimes.

Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

On the whole, the happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except the fact that they are so...

...and to be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others, bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.

Consequently, we should try as much as possible to maintain a high degree of health; for cheerfulness is the very flower of it.

If yu ever find happiness bi hunting for it, yu will find it, az the old woman did the spektakles she had lost, safe on her own noze all the time.

Contentment is the more serene brother of Happiness.

Once you stop rushing through life, you will be amazed how much more life you have time for.