Quotes About Contentment

Real happiness is when you are happy for no reason at all; you are simply being.

Happiness is a tiger in your tank and a pussycat in your back seat.

It is our basic right to be a happy person, happy family, and eventually a happy world. That should be our goal.

The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, As sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth, and set down as gain each day that fortune grants.

Be happy. If you're successful but unhappy, that's emptiness.

Money and fame are trashy and don't guarantee happiness, but we all refuse really to know it.

If we have no inner peace, we deceive ourselves into thinking that comfort and prosperity will bring happiness.

'Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.

Who would you be without the thought that happiness depends on someone else?

She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy.

Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.

We have to go. I'm almost happy here.

Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.

The reason that so many fail to find happiness is that they fail to find gratitude.

Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.

Being happy is not the only happiness.

Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?

There is no point when all the material benefits of the world add up to a general state of happiness. It is the Great Misconception.

Happiness is never there to stay [...] Happiness is merely a respite offered by inquietude.

There are only moments. Live in this one. The happiness of these days.

Happiness based on reasons is actually another form of misery.

Choosing to be grateful earns you happiness

Happiness has many roots, but none more important than security.