Quotes About Contentment

Jolly' is about slapping on a smile and making the best of what you've got. It's the fleeting moments of joy, and laughter, and dogs pushing trollies outside Lidl, that all of us can notice and celebrate. Happiness is in the small things. So stay 'jolly'.

Helen Russell

Happy folk, I knew, were proven to earn more, be healthier, hang on to relationships for longer and even smell better.

Maybe I should start my happiness project by trying to be more grateful for what I've got,

had a job I'd worked hard for in an industry I'd been toiling in for more than a decade. But once I got the role I'd been striving towards, I realised I wasn't actually any happier – just busier.

Fewer new shiny things = fewer hours overtime = happier life.

When you ask God for a gift, Be thankful if he sends, Not diamonds, pearls or riches, but the love of real true friends.

It didn't matter what you look like. You don't have to get up at 5:30 in the morning and there's a lot to be said for that. Corpse Bride can just play all my parts from now on and I'll just do the voice.

It took me ages to grow into being a woman, into being happy with it.

Leave the table while you still feel you could eat a little more.

Clouds rise up to heaven: The image of WAITING. Thus the superior man eats and drinks, is joyous and of good cheer.

Dat is de ellende : je wilt in geen geval nog een keer jonger, stommer zijn, maar je wilt ook niet ouder worden, en ondanks alle ervaring heb je geen vertrouwen in de ouderdom, je wilt jezelf en de wereld om je heen diepvriezen, je bent niet superieur genoeg om gewoon te genieten van wat er is.

So your question, are we happy here? I say how can we be happy when we are mere wanderers without a home?

You can only have bliss if you don't chase it.

What's the use of happiness? It can't buy you money.

I feel like a jug in which wine is poured until it overflows.

Ce n'était pas qu'elle ne fût contente de plaire, mais ce contentement n'était pas suffisant pour qu'elle se donnât beaucoup de peine en vue de l'obtenir; quand elle s'était passé un doigt mouillé sur les sourcils, et la langue sur les lèvres, elle avait beaucoup fait.

Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.

I was full of them. I had stopped being unfilled. Everything was perfection. I had no need to think, or weigh, or criticize, any more. No need to compare any more. My horizontal was now vertical. I existed at a height. I had not lived in vain.

Le secret du bonheur était de vivre en jugeant le présent avec la même sérénité que s'il s'agissait déjà du passé.

Learn to limit yourself, to content yourself with some definite thing, and some definite work; dare to be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not and to believe in your own individuality.

Put personal ambition away from you, and then you will find consolation in living or in dying, whatever may happen to you.