Quotes About Contentment

The brooding is better than the joy because even if the heart fills with happiness, it still mourns.

Happiness: there are a series of rules, and if you fail to follow them, your conscious mind will refuse to accept the idea that you're happy.

Avoid greatness in a cottage there may be more real happiness than kings or their favourites enjoy.

The fountain of contentment must spring up in the mind.

Heap up great wealth in your house, if you wish, and live as a tyrant, but, if the enjoyment of these things be lacking, I would not buy the rest for the shadow of smoke as against happiness.

Pure and simple, balance is happiness.

Happiness that depends mainly on physical pleasure is unstable; one day it's there, the next day it may not be.

Power, wealth and immortality--they don't bring happiness. You will never know what the word means.

If by happiness you mean instead an ordinary contentment, then yes - I'm fairly contented. Not satisfied - contented.

No man can enjoy happiness without thinking that he enjoys it.

Peace is only possible if men cease to place their happiness in the possession of things which cannot be shared.

And feel that I am happier than I know.

When all things are considered, happiness is a better indicator of success than success has ever been of happiness.

The "pursuit of happiness" is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

I've gotten to a point, where I realize that happiness doesn't come from the outside.

I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.

It is not a bad thing to settle for the Little Way, not the big search for the big happiness but the sad little happiness of drinks and kisses, a good little car and a warm deep thigh.

Then wilt thou not be loath To leave this Paradise, but shalt possess A Paradise within thee, happier far.

Would I have been happier? Maybe. But then, happiness was overrated.

Happiness is the cessation of suffering.

It is a comely fashion to be glad; Joy is the grace we say to God.

Happiness is a way of praying.

Happiness is a decision I must make.

Happiness is a state of mind. With physical comforts if your mind is still in a state of confusion and agitation, it is not happiness. Happiness means calmness of mind.