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Quotes About Contentment

Happiness cannot help but dance around you when you are fulfilled.
~ Prem Rawat
Happiness is not a sign that we are right with God; happiness is a sign of satisfaction, that is all, and the majority of us can be satisfied on too low a level.
~ Oswald Chambers
Lowering your standards is the key to happiness.
~ Ramon Bautista
those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy.
~ Alex Flinn, Beastly
Even in Siberia there is happiness.
~ Anton Chekhov
Call no man happy, said Shadow, until he is dead
~ Neil Gaiman, American Gods
No one is contented in this world, I believe. There is always something left to desire, and the last thing longed for always seems the most necessary to happiness.
~ Marie Corelli
Our predicament is not the difficulty of attaining happiness, but the difficult of avoiding the misery to which the pursuit of happiness exposes us.
~ Michael Joseph Oakeshott
You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.
~ Eric Hoffer
Fireside happiness, to hours of ease Blest with that charm, the certainty to please.
~ Samuel Rogers
Real happiness is so simple that most people do not recognize it. It is derived from the simplest, the quietest, the most unpretentious things in the world.
~ Orison Swett Marden
Happiness is a wondrous commodity: the more you give, the more you have.
~ Madame de Stael
Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
~ Jonathan Edwards
Beauty comes from the happiness within.
~ Liv Tyler
Once I wanted total happiness - now I will settle for a little less pain.
~ Ashleigh Brilliant
At the heart of happiness lies peace. It is the last and the highest attainment of the soul.
~ Hugh Black
It's a great game - the pursuit of happiness.
~ Eugene O'Neill
The single fact of existing is already a true happiness.
~ Blaise Cendrars
Fulfill me, make me happy, make me feel safe, tell me who I am. The world cannot give you those things, and when you no longer have such expectations, all self created suffering comes to an end.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
~ Don Marquis
A reasonable man needs only to practice moderation to find happiness.
~ Johann von Goethe
The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.
~ Doug Larson
You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.
~ John Mayer
Happiness does not depend on outward circumstances, but on the state of the heart.
~ J.C. Ryle, A Call to Prayer