Quotes About Contentment

I believe that happiness can be found. If I thought otherwise, I should be silent and not make unhappiness the more bitter by discussing it.

Happiness is a condition of mind not a result of circumstances.

Hats are like a halo of happiness.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause of happiness

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.

I don't have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness - it's right in front of me if I'm paying attention and practicing gratitude.

To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.

Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?

Everyone needs a certain amount of money. Beyond that, we pursue money because we know how to obtain it. We don't necessarily know how to obtain happiness.

Happiness is making your dreams come true.

Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

I know well that happiness is in little things.

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.

Surfeits of happiness are fatal.

I have to find a place for my own. I have to search for my own happiness.

Feel the joy .. feel the happiness.

Supreme happiness consists in self-content; that we may gain this self-content, we are placed upon this earth and endowed with freedom.

True happiness springs from moderation. [Ger., Aus Massigkeit entspringt ein reines Gluck.]

If you want to be happy, you will be.

Whatever you put aside to seek happiness, remember where you put it.

We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness.

It is quite easy for stupid people to be happy; they believe in fables, and they trot on in a beaten track like a horse on a tramway.