Quotes About Contentment

Portable property is happiness in a pocketbook.

The key to happiness is not to get more, but to enjoy what we have and to fill the empty frame of our lives instead of enlarging it.

Those undeserved joys which come uncalled and make us more pleased than grateful are they that sing.

I have the happiness of a passing moment, and what more can mortal ask?

Wealth hath never given happiness, but often hastened misery.

What if happiness is in fact more about remembering who we are, rather than attempting to change anything or anyone at all?

Domestic happiness, thou only bliss Of paradise that has surviv'd the fall!

Joy is realized as the natural by-product of the passionate pursuit of something other than happiness.

Anyone who says that money cannot buy happiness has had very little success with either one.

Happiness is not a house where you can live. (But it is a house you can build.)

you already possess all you need to be genuinely happy.

There is always the personal, simple happiness that doesn't happen.

Happiness is the most elusive thing for human beings to find.

Those who seek for something more than happiness in this world must not complain if happiness is not their portion.

If happiness could be bought, we'd probably be unhappy at the price tag. If only the secret of happiness was as simple as getting wealthy and spending more.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Very few people are happy in this world. Most are miserable. Even in their so-called happiness, they are unhappy; it is so short of ecstasy, of god-consciousness; it's almost pitiful.

I know a lot of ways to happiness! I also know some pretty fast shortcuts to misery.

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor

Happiness is the moment when one doesn't feel pain.

Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it; We are happy now because God wills it.

Joe E. Lewis said, 'Money doesn't buy happiness but it calms the nerves.' And that is how I feel about a film being well-received.

Happiness requires that we give up a worldly orientation-not worldly things, but a worldly attachment to things. We have to surrender all outcomes. We have to live here but appreciate the joke.

Joy is not a thing, it is in us.