Quotes About Contentment

It is not great, but little good-haps that make up happiness.

Must protect my little pockets of happiness.

He who lives happiest has forgotten most

Happiness has little to do with what is going on around you, and a lot to do with what is going on inside you.

Human beings need unhappiness at least as much as they need happiness.

Happiness is not the natural state of mankind, and is never achieved from the outside in.

Everybody strains after happiness, and the result is that nobody's happy.

There are thousands of books on the joy of gardening and cooking. Alas, there are only few on the joy of living.

It was needless, after this, to say that all was vanity and vexation of spirit; for it is impossible to derive happiness from the company of those whom we deprive of happiness.

Today's gratitude buys tomorrows happiness.

I'm pretty happy for someone who struggles with happiness.

I read a book not to find its meaning, but to find my happiness.

True art must be evidence of happiness, contentment and purity of its authors.

Wealth, taste and leisure can bring many things but they do not bring happiness.

It was almost painful, I thought, to have a heart so swollen with gratitude and what must have been pure, untainted happiness. I wanted to live inside the feeling forever.

Before strongly desiring anything, we should look carefully into the happiness of its present owner.

If we do not find happiness in the present moment, in what shall we find it?

Happiness today, I think, is for most people the satisfaction of the eternal suckling: to drink in more this, that, or the other.

O merry, merry, merry, like only dogs know how to be happy and nothing more, with an absolute shameless nature.

The foundation of all happiness in thinking rightly.

Holiness is happiness; and the more you have of the former, the more you will undoubtedly enjoy of the latter.

One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.

There are no short and easy paths to a long and lasting happiness.

Many things can make you miserable for weeks; few can bring you a whole day of happiness.