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Quotes About Contentment

When the turbulence of distracting thoughts subside and our mind becomes still, a deep happiness and contentment naturally arises from within.
~ Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
Happiness is your choice to make. How happy or how miserable do you want to be?
~ Edgar Cayce
The basic root of happiness lies in our minds; outer circumstances are nothing more than adverse or favourable.
~ Matthieu Ricard
A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
~ Baruch Spinoza
Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety-valve device for dealing with happiness overflow.
~ Monica Edwards
If my heart can become pure and simple, like that of a child, I think there probably can be no greater happiness than this.
~ Kitaro Nishida
I do not think that we have a "right" to happiness. If happiness happens, say thanks.
~ Marlene Dietrich
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
~ EH. Bradley
No medicine cures what happiness cannot.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it's the understanding of something.
~ Vernon Howard
Happy people do not demand a lot from the world because their happiness proceeds from a place deeper than the world can touch.
~ Alan Cohen
Isolation is the indispensable component of human happiness.
~ Glenn Gould
The key to knowing joy is being easily pleased.
~ Mark Nepo
A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
~ Cicero
To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.
~ WALTER BENJAMIN
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
~ J.M. Barrie
Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.
~ Isaac Asimov
Nothing is more graceful than habitual cheerfulness.
~ Adam Smith
We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.
~ Martha Washington
Happiness belongs to the self sufficient.
~ Aristotle
The process of finding happiness within one's own Self may be difficult and slow but it cannot be found anywhere else.
~ Swami Parthasarathy
Happiness is a continuous creative activity of imaginatively comparing your experiences to things that aren't as good and thereby feeling happy and grateful.
~ Baba Amte