Quotes About Contentment

Whatever they desire, the object of that desire arises from the power of their own thoughts; they have it and are happy.

Envy can wake us up to one of two truths: We want something and better do something about it while we still can, or we want something and just cannot have it. […] If your envy is strong and you decide you want to do something, you probably can.

You possess one piece of the "good." It would only be arrogance to think any of us should have it all.

Would you rather be a happy pig or an unhappy human?

At first a woman doesn't want anything but a husband, but just as soon as she gets one, she wants everything else in the world.

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.

If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

Happiness is a habit—cultivate it.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

Công th?c cho s? ngu d?t chung thân là: Th?a mãn v?i quan ?i?m c?a mình và hài lòng v?i tri th?c c?a mình.

Oh, yes; the game was to just find something about everything to be glad about—no matter what 'twas

The unattainable was most desireable. The already attained was dull.

Potemkin suffered bitterly from having nothing left to want. For when dreams turn into reality, there is an empty spot where the dreams used to be, and Potemkin had no dreams left.

A rich man, it is said, is not he who has the most, but he who needs the least.

I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!

HAPPINESS is not a goal, it is a by-product.

Consider the truly happy people you know. I think it is unlikely that you will find that circumstances have made them happy. They have made themselves happy in spite of circumstances.

The most unhappy people in the world are those who face the days without knowing what to do with their time.

When we admit that one can not retrace one's steps and live life over again, we may accept the fact that we might as well savor it and enjoy it as we go along and not always be striving for something in the future which after all we may never achieve nor enjoy.

The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create to create life in that isolation from life.

Is it possible that even happy moments of pleasure never stand up to a rigorous examination? Possible.

Nino has something that's eating him inside, like Lila, and it's a gift and a suffering; they aren't content, they never give in, they fear what is happening around them.