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Quotes About Contentment

My resolution is to make positivity, thankfulness and happiness my new mantra.
~ Francisco Costa
Coarse rice to eat, water to drink, my bended arm for a pillow - therein is happiness. Wealth and rank attained through immoral means are nothing but drifting clouds.
~ Confucius
Gratitude is a word that I cherish. Gratitude is what defines the happiness and humanity of the human being.
~ Elie Wiesel
Happiness always returns to port . . .
~ Duong Thu Huong
Freedom from suffering is a great happiness.
~ Nhat Hanh
There must be some mixture of happiness in everything but sin.
~ Lydia Sigourney
So this is happiness, that journeyman.
~ Arthur Lynch
The majority of human beings do not turn to God because they have not enough happiness but because happiness is not enough.
~ Sheila Kaye-Smith
We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy than in endeavoring to think so ourselves
~ Confucius
The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness
~ David Hume
Happiness is not a destination. It is a mood, it is not permanent. It comes and goes and if people thought that way then maybe people would find happiness more often.
~ Mark Schwahn
He who is good is happy.
~ William Habington
I mean to be too rich to lament or to feel anything of the sort. A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. It certainly may secure all the myrtle and turkey part of it.
~ Jane Austen
Happiness is an endowment and not an acquisition. It depends more upon temperament and disposition than environment.
~ John James Ingalls
The key to happiness is the decision to be happy
~ Marianne Williamson
Happiness is more important than money any day.
~ Jack White
My family didn't have a lot of money, and I'm grateful for that. Money is the longest route to happiness.
~ Evangeline Lilly
True happiness is not related to external conditions but comes from the unconditioned.
~ Eckhart Tolle
We call "happiness" a certain set of circumstances that makes joy possible. But we call joy that state of mind and emotions that needs nothing to feel happy.
~ Andre Gide
The happy have whole days, and those they choose. The unhappy have but hours, and those they lose.
~ Colley Cibber
Mere pleasure is at best but fleeting; happiness is abiding, for in the recollection thereof is renewed.
~ James E. Talmage
Find things that make you feel still, that make you feel good.
~ Frederick Lenz
No being can make another one happy.
~ W. H. Auden
Happiness is within everyone, but we are not able to experience it because of our ego's likes and dislikes.
~ Mata Amritanandamayi