Quotes About Contentment

Now I'll give you some advice, since you been asking for it. Happiness is like them plants you been yapping about. Sometimes it's growing right in your own backyard and you don't even know it.

It is an important thing, in our never-ending pursuit of happiness, to stop and just be happy for a while.

How hard it is to make an Englishman acknowledge that he is happy! Pendennis. Book ii. Chap. xxxi.

I've had at least my share of tragedy, but I have had far more than my share of happiness.

How little has situation to do with happiness.

Meditation is the short path to happiness. Meditation takes you beyond the desire-aversion operating system that offers very limited happiness and a great deal of frustration.

Perfect happiness, by princes sought, Is not with birth born, nor exchequers bought.

To lead happy, contented, peaceful lives, remember all the good times you share with others, forget all the good you do for others.

But happiness ... happiness grows at our own firesides," she said. "It is not to be picked in strangers' gardens." ~ The House at Riverton

We are never happy; we can only remember that we were so once.

Whoever opined "Money can't buy you happiness" obviously had far too much of the stuff.

The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.

To be strong is to be happy!

Don't confuse fun with fulfillment, or pleasure with happiness.

But I am happy. And happiness, I have decided, is a noble ambition.

Virtue alone is happiness below.

People don't care about being duped as long as they're happy, which is the shortest form of happiness; hence 'self-duprication' becomes a habit.

The kind of happiness that stays with you is the happiness that springs from inward thoughts and emotions.

Happiness is this place that, once you arrive there, you have nothing else to do. You get bored. Passion is this up and down; it's like a rollercoaster, you know, and much more interesting to me.

Sitting in stillness has got to be the greatest asset I have in terms of attaining happiness.

Even the lowliest, provided he is whole, can be happy, and in his own . way, perfect.

It is no happiness to live long, nor unhappiness to die soon; happy is he that hath lived long enough to die well.

You don't need others to change in order to be happy.

But does not happiness come from the soul within?