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Quotes About Contentment

Live with the objective of being happy.
~ Anne Frank
Happiness, to some, is elation; to others it is mere stagnation.
~ Amy Lowell
Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it.
~ Alexandre Dumas
The weak fear happiness itself.
~ Osamu Dazai
The Secret of Happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
~ F.H. Bradley
The only way to happiness is never to give happiness a thought.
~ Elton Trueblood
What keeps us from happiness is our inability to fully inhabit the present
~ Alan Watts
The secret of human happiness is not in self-seeking but in self-forgetting.
~ Theodor Reik
Everything exists in limited quantity - especially happiness.
~ Pablo Picasso
Let us then submit to an invincible ignorance on which our happiness depends.
~ Julien Offray de La Mettrie
Happy people die whole, they are all dissolved in a moment, they have had what they wanted.
~ Robinson Jeffers
Happiness is not something you acquire; love is not something you produce; love is not something you have; love is something that has you.
~ Anthony de Mello
The secret of happiness is simply this... your happiness does NOT depend on getting what you want.
~ Michael Neill
I'm trying to tell people that I am happy the way I am. But why do people have to call my happiness a failure?
~ Kim Ung-yong
Happiness is a state of mind. It's just according to the way you look at things.
~ Walt Disney Company
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
~ Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
But I also say this: that light is an invitation to happiness, and that happiness, when it's done right, is a kind of holiness, palpable and redemptive.
~ Mary Oliver
To be truly happy and contented, you must let go of what it means to be happy or content.
~ Confucius
Meditation is the direct means of enjoying the greatest happiness and is the only means to quench the thirst for happiness on earth.
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
The desire for true happiness is nothing to feel ashamed about.
~ Thanissaro Bhikkhu
We possess only the happiness we able to understand.
~ Maurice Maeterlinck
There's a huge difference between achieving to be happy and happily achieving.
~ Tony Robbins
Happiness ain't a thing in itself - it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant.
~ Mark Twain
Happiness never becomes a habit.
~ Marilyn Monroe