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Quotes About Contentment

Happiness is free, there are no conditions.
~ Robert Holden
Before we passionately desire a thing, we should examine the happiness of its possessor.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Forgive, you will have happiness. Forget, you will have satisfacton. Forgive and forget, You will have everlasting peace Within and without.
~ Sri Chinmoy
When one has a famishing thirst for happiness, one is apt to gulp down diversions wherever they are offered.
~ Alice Hegan Rice
Happiness that is sought for ourselves alone can never be found.
~ Thomas Merton
Power is not happiness.
~ William Godwin
Felicity is in possession, happiness in anticipation.
~ Jean Racine
We are ourselves our happiness.
~ Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things themselves; we are happy from possessing what we like, not from possessing what others like.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Perfect happiness, even in memory, is not common.
~ Jane Austen
Happiness is where you start from rather than where you go. God, I sound like Yoda.
~ Simon Pegg
Happiness doesn't always come from a pursuit. Sometimes it comes when we least expect it.
~ Dalai Lama XIV
To be busy is man's only happiness.
~ Mark Twain
They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations.
~ Francis Bacon
Sometimes happiness consists of finding the right balance of misery.
~ Orson Scott Card, Sarah
Whoever said happiness needs a plan?
~ Robert Holden
Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.
~ Arthur Christopher Benson
And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.
~ Honore de Balzac
What we call happiness is what we do not know.
~ Anatole France
I have wanted only one thing to make me happy. That thing is everything.
~ Sebastian Horsley
That sense of happiness just out beyond my reach - I'm not sure I'd grasped that exactly, but I'd got something close to it, contentment maybe, or at least a functioning routine with regular rewards.
~ Sebastian Faulks, Engleby
Let your greatest possession be the ability to let go of any possession, joyfully.
~ Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
Happiness lies in the fulfillment of the spirit through the body.
~ Cyril Connolly
What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?
~ Margaret Oliphant