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Quotes About Contentment

How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now, and that there will never be a time when it is not now.
~ Gerald Jampolsky
Authentic happiness is not linked to an activity, it is a state of being.
~ Matthieu Ricard
You cannot always have happiness, but you can always give happiness.
~ Alyson Noel
With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?
~ Oscar Wilde
I can never make up my mind if I'm happy being a flute player, or if I wish I were Eric Clapton.
~ Ian Anderson
Happiness is a present attitude and not a future condition.
~ Hugh Prather
If you are looking for happiness in this world (dunya), you're in the wrong place.
~ Hamza Yusuf
There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy.
~ Joyce Grenfell
To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness.
~ Robert Morley
Being joyful is our natural state of being.
~ Deepak Chopra
If one thinks that one is happy, that is enough to be happy.
~ Madame de La Fayette
Going back into the negative past to find happiness is like trying to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear
~ Sydney Banks
Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.
~ Joseph Wood Krutch
Happiness is something that comes from our own hearts, not from other people.
~ Lynn Austin
Contentment is knowing you're right. Happiness is knowing someone else is wrong.
~ Bill Bailey
Happiness is realizing that nothing is too important.
~ Antonio Gala
The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
How simple and frugal a thing is happiness.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
Remember that one who forgets the language of gratitude can never be on speaking terms with happiness.
~ John Robbins
Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment, not the gratification of inexhaustible desires for outward things.
~ Matthieu Ricard
My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.
~ William Shakespeare
Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.
~ Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca
Happiness is dog-shaped, I say.
~ Chapman Pincher
Know your own happiness.
~ Jane Austen