Quotes About Contentment

If you think the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, start taking better care of your own yard.

People spend too much time looking for someone else that will make them happy. Realize that it's your job to make yourself happy.

When I have been unhappy, I have heard an opera... and it seemed the shrieking of winds; when I am happy, a sparrow's chirp is delicious to me. But it is not the chirp that makes me happy, but I that make it sweet.

Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough.

Getting what you want is not nearly as important as giving what you have.

Envy is like flame which scorches the wisdom of inner self. Envy reflects lack of belief in self. It will eat away your very essentials of self worth.

Don't build your identity on material things, you are greater than what you have.

In life, Sometimes you just have to forget what you want, and remember what you deserve.

Be the person you will be happy to live with for the duration of your life. Don't rely on your significant other, or anyone else, for your happiness and self-worth. Know that our first and last love is always self-love, and that if you can't love and respect yourself, no one else will be able to either.

The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

The whole art of teaching is the only art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards; and curiosity itself can be vivid and wholesome only in proportion as the mind is contented and happy

Baby moma drama, steady fightin with these hoes. Might be goin up the road but guess what I'm still happy.

The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing

To spend several days in a friend's house and hunger for something to read, while you are treading on costly carpets, and sitting upon luxurious chairs and sleeping upon down, is as if one were bribing your body for the sake of cheating your mind

When the belly is full the mind is amongst the maids

Frankly, once I've eaten a thing... I don't expect to see it again.

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

The key to happiness is your inner freedom, peace, and willingness to enjoy every moment of your life.

I've never had anything but the freedom to do what I wanted just as long as it made me happy.

Freedom's just another word for nothin left to loose. Nothin, don't mean nothin honey if it ain't free. And feelin good was easy, Lord, when he played the blues. You know feelin good was good enough for me, good enough for me and my Bobby McGee.

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe.

Freedom from worries and surcease from strain are illusions that always inhabit the distance.