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Quotes About Contentment

Let there be peace within my walls and prosperity within my palaces.
~ Catherine Ponder
There is enough in the world for everyone to have plenty, to live happily, and to be at peace with his neighbors.
~ Harry S. Truman
Peace comes not by establishing a calm outward setting so much as by inwardly surrendering to whatever the setting.
~ Hubert Van Zeller
Alas! I have nor hope nor health, Nor peace within nor calm around, Nor that content surpassing wealth The sage in meditation found.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
~ Aesop
Contentment... is the soul's enjoyment of that peace that passes all understanding.
~ Arthur W. Pink
Live in the present moment and find your interest and happiness in the things of today.
~ Emmet Fox
I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.
~ William Shakespeare
If I really want inner peace in my life, then I must not busy myself with what other people do and say.
~ Sri Chinmoy
Real power is not given to us or even created; real power is realized. It comes from realizing an inner sense of peace, self-worth, and happiness.
~ Dean Ornish
Good health is not the absence of symptoms, it is the presence of peace.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it.
~ Rumi
Fond as we are of our loved ones, there comes at times during their absence an unexplained peace.
~ Anna Howard Shaw
Find joy and peace in this very moment.
~ Nhat Hanh
Freedom from desire leads to inner peace.
~ Laozi
Peace is the altar of God, the condition in which happiness exists.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
I feel beautiful when I'm at peace with myself.
~ Elle Macpherson
It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
~ George Bernard Shaw
The heart at peace is its own reward, needing nothing outside of itself to be fully content.
~ Guy Finley
In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.
~ Ben Hecht
Yes, in the poor man's garden grow Far more than herbs and flowers - Kind thoughts, contentment, peace of mind, And Joy for weary hours.
~ Mary Howitt
Selling millions of records is great, but at the end of the day it really doesn't bring peace.
~ TobyMac
Our ultimate destination is mental peace.
~ Bikram Choudhury
There can be no peace for us, only misery, and the greatest happiness.
~ Leo Tolstoy