Quotes About Contentment

The joy is not in experiencing a scarce commodity but in possessing it.

It turns out that what money buys has rapidly diminishing emotional returns ... As long as we're not destitute, happiness depends less on getting what we want than appreciating what we already have.

I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry.

I am proud only of those days that pass in undivided tenderness.

Lord, grant us rest tonight, and if we must be wakeful, cheerful.

I am not ambitious to appear a man of letters: I could be content the world should think I had scarce looked upon any other book than that of nature.

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

Family life is a bit like a runny peach pie — not perfect but who's complaining?

Seeking happiness, I passed many travelers headed in the opposite direction, seeking happiness.

Sometimes we don't find the thing that will make us happy because we can't give up the thing that was supposed to.

Whatever you set aside to seek happiness, remember where you put it.

Who does not wish to be beautiful, and clever, and rich, and to have back, in old age, the time spent trying to be any of them.

As you wait for better days, don't forget to enjoy today, in case they've already started.

[I]t's getting harder and harder to worry needlessly.

Happiness is life served up with a scoop of acceptance, a topping of tolerance and sprinkles of hope, although chocolate sprinkles also work.

The little money I have — that is my wealth, but the things I have for which I would not take money, that is my treasure.

The key to enjoying the moment is to always carry a list of "Things I Gotta Do That Can Wait."

Nowadays you envy a manic-depressive. Half the time he's happy, the other half he's right.

We realize we can't have everything, and so begins the mad scramble to have everything else.

The best things in life are not only free, they require less assembly.

We never give up wanting things for ourselves, but there comes a day when what we want for ourselves is someone else's happiness.

The search for happiness is unlike any other search, for we search last in the likeliest places.

The greatest gift we give to someone who loves us is simply to be happy.

Looking back on a happy life, one realizes that one was not happy all the time.