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Quotes About Contentment

There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is
~ William George Jordan
Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
~ Alan Watts
Our joy does not have to be based on our circumstances.
~ Joyce Meyer
There isn't anything anybody wants that is for any other reason than that they think they would feel better in having it.
~ Shinzo Abe
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Where fear is, happiness is not.
~ Seneca the Younger
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
~ Zig Ziglar
What leads to unhappiness is making pleasure the chief aim.
~ William Shenstone
Every year I want to experience something that makes me say, "this is the best day of my life."
~ Robert Cheeke
You are not feeling empty because you don't have much money. You are feeling empty because you have not yet encountered your real self, you have not come to your authentic individuality.
~ Rajneesh
The flourishing life cannot be achieved until we moderate our desires and see how superficial and fleeting they are.
~ Epictetus
Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well-ordered mind than a man's ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company.
~ Seneca the Younger
Never get into the petty habit of measuring yourself worth against other people's net worth.
~ Robin Sharma
I'm not really a career person; I'm a gardener, basically.
~ John Lennon
Accept The Movement, Everything Is Ok.
~ Rishi Prabhakar
Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.
~ Amelia Josephine Burr
The more you recognize and express gratitude for the things you have, the more you will have to express gratitude for.
~ Zig Ziglar
The nature of happiness is such that happiness retreats the more intensely you pursue it.
~ Robertson Davies
Neither failure nor success has the power to change your inner state of Being.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing; those who are not quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world.
~ Walter Savage Landor
If everyone was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.
~ Mark Twain
Money has yet to make anyone rich.
~ Seneca the Younger
All that you need in order to have total happiness, fulfillment, and love in your life you already have right now, whoever you are, wherever you are.
~ Wayne Dyer
You can usually tell when I'm happy by the fact that I've gained weight.
~ Christy Turlington