Quotes About Contentment

Happiness is the highest good

So they speak soothingly about progress and the greatest possible happiness, forgetting that happiness is itself poisoned if the measure of suffering has not been fulfilled.

We need to learn how to want what we have NOT to have what we want in order to get steady and stable Happiness

Satisfaction isn't so much getting what you want as wanting what you have.

The trap of the self is the trap that causes unhappiness. We define ourselves too much; whereas the infinite, the pure radiant spirit, is not so definable.

Without realizing who you are, happiness cannot come to you.

It is not what we have but what we enjoy that constitutes our abundance.

To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.

Happiness is the best facelift.

These are beautiful days. Folks ask what I'm doing. I tell them I'm doing family.

Mr. Gandhi, you have been working fifteen hours a day for fifty years. Don't you think you should take a vacation?" Gandhi smiled and replied, "I am always on vacation.

A pint can't hold a quart - if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.

Enlightenment is understanding that there is nowhere to go, nothing to do, and nobody you have to be except exactly who you're being right now.

A day merely survived is no cause for celebration.

Be Charitable before wealth make thee covetous, and loose not the glory of the Mite.

If you can only be happy with other people - and not alone - you are not a very happy person

The things that make us happy make us wise.

The only way I can describe it-at the end of How the Grinch Stole Christmas, you know how his heart grows like five times? Everything is full; it's just full all the time.

Never let anyone steal your joy.

Dose it ever amaze and delight you that of all the places in the world - cold grassy nests under hedgerows, warm patches of sun on a carpet - the cat chooses to sit on your lap?

God doesn't look at just what we give. He also looks at what we keep.

There are so few who can grow old with a good grace.

Freedom is not having everything we crave, it's being able to go without the things we crave and being OK with it.

If you give everybody a slice of pie, you will still have more than enough.