Quotes About Contentment

I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'.

Do not be astonished at anything, even happiness.

Happiness pursued eludes, happiness given returns.

Avarice and Happiness never saw each other, how then should they become acquainted?

Real happiness lies within you.

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

It is the pursuit of happiness that makes people unhappy.

We never give up wanting things for ourselves, but there comes a day when what we want for ourselves is someone else's happiness.

Happiness must be shared. Selfishness it its enemy; to make another happy is to be happy one's self. It is quiet, most easily won in moments of solitude and reflection. It comes from within.

The gratification of desire is not happiness.

Whom neither shape of danger can dismay, Nor thought of tender happiness betray.

Things and conditions can give you pleasure but they cannot give you joy- joy arises from within.

Happiness is the possession of the excellence proper to us, and of the power subservient to it.

There is, after all, a kind of happiness in unhappiness, if it's the right unhappiness.

Younger people tend to associate happiness more with excitement and the future, while older people tend to associate happiness with peacefulness in the present.

Happiest is he who expects no happiness from others.

Happiness is found principally in meditation.

Nobody can make you happy but yourself. Things occupy us, people occupy us, but they don't make us happy. If we are honest, what makes us happy is to experience spirit.

My capacity for happiness," he added, "you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first

The happiest is he who suffers the least pain; the most miserable, he who enjoys the least pleasure.

If happiness is anticipation with certainty, we were happy.

Sometimes the key to happiness is just expecting a little bit less

Everyday happiness means you can't wait to come home, because the soup is hot.

Happiness is determined more by one's state of mind than by external events.