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Quotes About Contentment

A happiness that is sought for ourselves alone can never be found: for a happiness that is diminished by being shared is not big enough to make us happy.
~ Thomas Merton
We just wanna be the happy bums that we are. That's all.
~ Mike Patton
I do think awful things may happen at any moment, so while they are not happening, you may as well be pleased.
~ Nigella Lawson
Just because someone is single doesn't mean they're lonely. Some people are in relationships and they've forgotten what happiness is.
~ Drake
We spend our lives searching for something we think we don't have, something that will make us happy. But the key to our deepest happiness lies in changing our vision of where to seek it.
~ Sharon Salzberg
If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
~ Mother Teresa
The most beautiful moments in life are moments when you are expressing your joy, not when you are seeking it.
~ Sadhguru
One cannot create happiness with beautiful objects, but one can spoil quite a lot of happiness with bad ones
~ Finn Juhl
The only way to find happiness is to understand that happiness is not out there. It's in here. And happiness is not next week. It's now.
~ Marshall Goldsmith
Be happy, and a reason will come along.
~ Robert Breault
Happiness isn't something that depends on our surroundings... It's something we make inside ourselves.
~ Corrie Ten Boom
Real happiness is not vulnerable, because it does not depend on circumstances.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Happiness is the natural state for someone who knows that there's nothing to know.
~ Byron Katie
If you're not happy, you can become happy. Happiness is a choice.
~ Jennifer Aniston
The happy people are those who are producing something.
~ William Ralph Inge
Happiness is not out there for us to find. The reason that it's not out there is that it's inside us.
~ Sonja Lyubomirsky
To me, ultimate happiness is a journey, not a destination. It's not somewhere you end up, it's making choices every day to make yourself happy.
~ Lizzie Velasquez
Happiness is not found, it is created. Happiness does not depend on all that we lack, but on the way in which we use all that we have
~ Arnaud Desjardins
The thought of a happiness that comes from outside the person, brings him sadness. But the recognition in the value of one's will and the freedom granted by its uplifting, brings great joy.
~ Abraham Isaac Kook
Happiness is a state of mind, so the real source of happiness must lie within the mind, not in external conditions.
~ Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
People will survive, and they will find happiness. Happiness only comes when you're not looking for it.
~ Hugh Laurie
I have made many millions but they have brought me no happiness.
~ John D. Rockefeller
Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.
~ Bertrand Russell
Happy is the person who not only sings, but feels God's eye is on the sparrow, and knows He watches over me. To be simply ensconced in God is true joy.
~ Alfred Armand Montapert