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Quotes About Contentment

He felt gladness roar through his soul.
~ Stephen King, Misery
The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depend upon himself and not upon other men has adopted the very best plan for living happily.
~ Plato
Money is human happiness in the abstract he then who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Letting go takes a lot of courage sometimes. But once you let go, happiness comes very quickly. You won't have to go around search for it.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
It is neither wealth nor splendor but tranquility and occupation which give happiness.
~ Thomas Jefferson
And may I live the remainder of my life ... for myself may there be plenty of books and many years' store of the fruits of the earth!
~ Horace
Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you're feeling bad, just look at the cats, you'll feel better, because they know that everything is, just as it is.
~ Charles Bukowski, On Cats
That sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself.
~ Jane Austen
Happiness is not being pained in body nor troubled in mind.
~ Thomas Jefferson
We can't wait to be happy until we remove one hundred percent of suffering. That moment will never exist.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Society in itself is no great harm, but unsatisfied social aspirations are a bad and ugly business. We must certainly accept, and we will.
~ Leo Tolstoy, Family Happiness
Happiness is self-contained and self-sufficient. Happy men have no time and no use for you. Happy men are free men.
~ Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accom plished something.
~ Henry Ford
Everyone without exception is searching for happiness.
~ Blaise Pascal
Being naturally happy is the most impressive sign of freedom.
~ Eraldo Banovac
We must be happy with what we want when we are in pursuit of what we want.
~ Jim Rohn
Practice appreciation for who you are and what you have… and allow your life to unfold in the most amazing way.
~ Millen Livis
Happiness isn't expensive, it just costs your will...
~ Mehek Bassi
When people view their lives as insignificant, they escape using pleasure.
~ Moxie Will
When you come right down to it the secret of having it all is loving it all.
~ Dr. Joyce Brothers
The happiest people are not the ones with the best or the most things, but those who most appreciate what they have.
~ Oliver Gaspirtz
Happiness is when you are content with who you are, what you are, and where you are.
~ Faith Tilley Johnson
All happiness is in the mind.
~ Anonymous