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Quotes About Contentment

My happiness is marred only by my failure to attain it.
~ Mary Ruefle
... trouble of all kinds is voluble, and has plenty of words, but happiness was never written down.
~ Amelia Barr
A person can either do something in order to be happy, or... a person can start the day by simply deciding to BE happy and the things that person will do will automatically reflect that.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
Grandpa says we've got everything to make us happy but happiness.
~ Ellen Glasgow
Most people are grateful because they are happy. Wise people are happy because they're grateful.
~ Roger N. Walsh
How important is excitement to happiness? The key is to get excited about the mundane-- not just extraordinary things
~ Dennis Prager
one of the greatest hindrances to happiness in the present day is our tendency to standardize our conception of it.
~ J. E. Buckrose
To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of 26 and 18 is to do pretty well.
~ Jane Austen
Happiness, at my age, is breathing
~ Joan Rivers
Happiness puts on as many shapes as discontent, and there is nothing odder than the satisfaction of one's neighbor.
~ Phyllis McGinley
No one has a right to happiness.
~ Eric Hoffer
I'm happier. I guess I made up my mind to be that way.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything.
~ Victor Hugo
Happiness flourishes where there is happiness...
~ Andre Maurois
Happiness is the maximum agreement of reality and desire.
~ Martin Cruz Smith
Happiness is a powerful thing. It freed me to do what I always wanted to do.
~ Philip Schultz
The key to happiness is achievable dreams.
~ Nicholas Sparks
Education! Is it education to teach the young that their chances of happiness depend on being richer than their neighbors? Yet that is what it all tends to. Get on! - be successful!
~ Marie Corelli
I am deeply convinced that happiness does not exist in this world
~ Taylor Caldwell
Happiness rarely keeps company with an empty stomach
~ Helen Keller
Happiness is the only thing I understand.
~ Quentin Crisp
Happiness is not created as a result of certain conditions. Certain conditions are created as a result of happiness.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting.
~ Francis Bacon
Happiness for me is when my kids are good and when my family is whole.
~ Michelle Obama