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Quotes About Contentment

Happiness is the true beauty weapon.
~ Susan Sarandon
The world of those who are happy is different from the world of those who are not.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.
~ Voltaire
There are only moments of happiness - from contentment to ecstacy.
~ Indira Gandhi
The secret of happiness lies in the mind's release from worldly ties.
~ Gautama Buddha
Contentment is natural wealth.
~ Socrates
All achievement should be measured in human happiness.
~ Walter Lippmann
Time is given us to be happy and for no other reason [...] When we waste time, we waste happiness.
~ L. Frank Baum
Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
~ Iris Murdoch
If you possess happiness you possess everything: to be happy is to be in tune with God.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Happiness is possible only when we are kind to others and contented within.
~ Satish Kumar
Joy is that kind of happiness that does not depend on what happens.
~ David Steindl-Rast
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
~ Robert Frost
It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.
~ Lucille Ball
There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
Worry is to joy what a Hoover vacuum cleaner is to dirt: might as well attach your heart to a happiness-sucker and flip the switch.
~ Max Lucado
Beauty might bring happiness, but happiness always brings beauty.
~ Kevyn Aucoin
I am still determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may be.
~ Martha Washington
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
~ Stendhal
Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.
~ William Feather
The less one notices happiness, the greater it is.
~ Alberto Moravia
Habit is Heaven's own redress: it takes the place of happiness.
~ Alexander Pushkin
Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation.
~ Amy Lowell
There can be no joy in living without joy in work.
~ Thomas Aquinas