Quotes About Contentment

Rome ... seems to me the place in the world where one can best dispense with happiness.

We ne'er can be Made happy by compulsion.

Peace and happiness are what you covet, but these are only to be obtained by labor.

Happiness is a rare cosmetic.

Delight in splendor is No more than happiness with little: for both Have their appeal.

Most people when they're walking are thinking about where they have to go and what they have to do. But that removes us from happiness.

Happiness is just being you, where you are right now. Allow yourself to be you. Shut off all the silly thoughts and desires and crazy emotions

Happiness depends only on your mind. When the mind is free of past impressions and future cravings, happiness is there.

I have received and I want to give. This is the path to happiness and contentment.

In short, the world abounds with simple delusions which we may call "happiness", if we be but able to entertain them.

If you think there's something you need in order to be happy, then you believe in lack. Then believing you lack, you will create more lack.

Desire is happiness: satisfaction as happiness is merely the ultimate moment of desire. To be wish and wish alone is happiness, and a new wish over and over again.

Happiness does not lie in getting people and things outside of you lined up exactly to suit your desires.

The measure of happiness is merely the difference between expectations and outcomes. It is not concerned with what one possesses – it is concerned with how content one is with what one possesses.

I want fame more than I can tell. But more than I want fame I want happiness.

Feel that you are happy without any cause for happiness.

To possess is past the instant; we achieve the joy, immortality contented, were anomaly.

While being you and truly sharing what you do will bring happiness to others, you won't find contentment merely trying to keep others happy.

I'll have to calm down a bit. Or else I'll burst with happiness

There is no duty so much underrated as the duty of being happy.

Mirth is better than fun and happiness is better than mirth.

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

The best philosophy is to do one's duties to take the world as it comes submit respectfully to one's lot and bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it whatever it is.

What is the happiness ? Is it really happiness ? Nothing stable, just happen, stay and decay... Everything is impermanence, dissatisfaction and nothing can ever belong to itself