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Quotes About Contentment

A caress is better than a career.
~ Elizabeth Marbury
I am very happyBecause I have conquered myselfAnd not the world.I am very happyBecause I have loved the worldAnd not myself.
~ Sri Chinmoy
Happy girls are the prettiest
~ Audrey Hepburn
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.
~ Epictetus
The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.
~ Marcel Pagnol
If you wish to be happy, Eragon, Think not of what is to come nor of that which you have no control over but rather of the now and that which you are able to change
~ Christopher Paolini, Brisingr
Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.
~ Robert Anthony
Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.
~ Dale Carnegie
Doing what you love is freedom. Loving what you do is happiness.
~ Lana Del Rey
The point of simple living, for me has got to be:A soft place to landA wide margin of errorRoom to breatheLots of places to find baseline happiness in each and every day
~ Leo Babauta
There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations
~ Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes
Be Sure To Notice When You're Happy
~ Brenda Farrar-ejemai
She was happy, yes, in her own way, as best as she knew.But there's a difference between a single candle in darkness and a sunrise.
~ Victoria Aveyard, Queen Song
The secret of happiness is not doing what we like but in liking what we do.
~ J.M. Coetzee
An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is always possible to be happy.
~ Augustine Birrell
Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
~ Margaret Lee Runbeck
The decision is mine, and I choose happiness
~ Malori Howell
Lord, make me nowAs happy as the field.With flowers enriched...
~ Eileen A. Soper
You don't have to be happy to smile.
~ Daniel Willey
Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is at their heels.
~ Bertolt Brecht
if it makes you happy, then why the hell are you so sad?
~ Sheryl Crow
Don't put off happiness you can have today. Tomorrow is a hope, not a promise
~ Debra Anastasia
Some people would rather live in a hell they've got used to than in a paradise they've never experienced before.
~ Urania Sarri, Gate Deadlock
The secret to happiness is low expectations.
~ Barry Schwartz