Quotes About Contentment

Wealth and poverty do not lie in a man's estate, but in men's souls.

Happiness is really rooted in simplicity. The tendency to excessiveness in thought and action diminishes happiness.

No matter what you are doing, keep the undercurrent of happiness. Learn to be secretly happy within your heart in spite of all circumstances.

Pride thinks it's own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.

Happiness is a state of which you are unconscious. The moment you are aware that you are happy, you cease to be happy.

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

If you are as happy, my dear sir, on entering this house as I am in leaving it and returning home, you are the happiest man in this country.

Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.

Happiness is unrepented pleasure.

You must be the best judge of your own happiness.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.

I can't complain, but sometimes I still do.

What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

Happiness is closer to the experience of acceptance and contentment than it is to pleasure. True happiness exists as the spacious and compassionate heart's willingness to feel whatever is present.

Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more.

To fall in love with yourself is the first secret of happiness. Then if you're not a good mixer you can always fall back on your own company.

Joy is what we all seek. It is an energy more powerful than food. But without love we can not feel true joy.

She long ago accepted the fact that happiness is like, swallows in spring. It may come and nest under your eaves or it may not. You cannot command it.

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.

To be happy, drop the words 'if only' and substitute instead the words 'next time'.

The secret to happiness is to find a congenial monotony.