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Quotes About Contentment

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.
~ Samuel Johnson
Well, no doubt it's a blessed thing to have an imagination that can always make you satisfied, no matter how you are fixed.
~ Mark Twain
We suffered failures of imagination just like everyone else, our daring was wanting, and our daily contentment too nearly adequate for us to give it up.
~ Joshua Ferris
Imagination doesn't always make you long for what you cannot have, but rather thrive in what you do not have.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy
The imagination can be happy in places where the whole man is not.
~ Katharine Fullerton Gerould
We are poor, indeed, when we have no half-wishes left us. The heart and the imagination close the shutters the instant they are gone.
~ Walter Savage Landor
As long as we require someone else to make us happy, we are slaves.
~ Swami Vivekananda
True joy is independence of circumstances - Choose to rejoice!
~ Andrew Wommack
There are worse places to be than on your own.
~ Ernest Hemingway
How foolish to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence.
~ Hermann Hesse
He only is rich who owns the day.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.
~ Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.
~ Hafez
Dead yesterdays and unborn tomorrows, why fret about it, if today be sweet.
~ Omar Khayyam
If you let go a little you will have a little happiness. If you let go a lot you will have a lot of happiness. If you let go completely you will be free.
~ Ajahn Chah
Stop hating on yourself for not being perfect. If God wanted perfection, He would have made you an angel.
~ Yasmin Mogahed
If you want to be happy, be.
~ Leo Tolstoy
You know what ? Certain people think they will feel good if certain things happen The trick is : you have to feel good for no reason
~ Richard Bandler
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can be smart and happy or stupid and miserable. . . it's your choice
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
The secret of happiness is renunciation.
~ Andrew Carnegie
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
~ Helen Keller
A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy.
~ Albert Einstein