Quotes About Contentment

The pursuit of happiness is the source of all unhappiness.

We tend to Seek Happiness when Happiness is actually a Choice

Happiness is not a future event.

My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions but in the fewness of my wants.

We don't have to wait for the right circumstances to have happiness.

People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their lives.

Happiness isn't some elusive treasure we chase after. It's a state of being we need to PRACTICE.

There is within every soul a thirst for happiness and meaning.

He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.

Work lovingly done is the secret of all order and all happiness.

I often paint tranquility. If you stop thinking and rest, then a little happiness comes into your mind. At perfect rest you are comfortable.

As soon as you stop wanting something you get it. I've found that to be absolutely axiomatic.

You have to be doing something you enjoy. That is a definition of happiness!

If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.

We're born to be happy, all of us.

Man must search for what is right, and let happiness come on its own.

Happiness is pleasure without regret

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things.

The most satisfying project you will ever undertake-and a mark of a complete human being-is to discover how to build a sense of happiness that no one can take away from you.

I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness.

Letting go gives us freedom and freedom is the only condition for happiness

Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.

Don't postpone your happiness until some perfect future date. Be happy now, tomorrow will take care of itself.