Quotes About Contentment

Man is never happy, but spends his whole life striving after something he thinks will make him so

Indeed the best thing about happiness itself," Lewis writes, "is that it liberates you from thinking about happiness—as the greatest pleasure that money can give us is to make it unnecessary to think about money . .

I'm not sure I even need a lover, male or female. Sometimes I think I'd settle for five good friends.

Happiness flooded through him in warm tides.

There was a newfound confidence singing in his heart. He had found a new belief in himself. At peace with himself and his world, he slept.

Life is not what we want but what we have.

If you imagine that you will be able to achieve your ideal by ingeniously planning out a timetable with a pen on a piece of paper, you had better give up hope at once.If you are not prepared for discouragements and disillusions; if you will not be content with a small result for a big effort, then do not begin. Lie down again and resume the uneasy doze which you call your existence.

Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for in the future.

I am happy. I am very happy. This morning when I woke up I felt good because the sun was shining. I felt good because I was a frog. And I felt good because I have you as a friend. I wanted to be alone. I wanted to think about how fine everything is.

Love can be its own reward.

They sat there, feeling happy together.

Even with my divorce and with everything, I don't need money.

Money doesn't make you happy. I now have 50 million but I was just as happy when I had 48 million.

I would never exchange my life with anybody else's

?nsan mutlulu?un hep sonradan fark?na var?r. Ah, o zaman ne mutluymu?um, ke?ke daha dikkatli olsaym???m.

Sommige mensen lijden omdat ze niet hoeven te leven. Ze hebben alles. Hun natje, hun droogje, een dak boven het hoofd. Maar ze hoeven niet te leven, want ze hebben alles. Als ze een boek waren geweest, zou een recensent vast schrijven: 'Aardig, maar de noodzak ontbreekt'.

De bloem van de eeuwige jeugd', mompelt hij. Er dringen zich meer herinneringen aan hem op, ook aangename. In het moeras van zijn geheugen zitten ook mooie herinneringen verstopt. Als je je geluk kunt herinneren, dan heeft het bestaan.

Roland Oberstein is gelukkig, zou hijzelf verklaren, omdat hij niets wil wat hij niet kan krijgen. Wat hij wil kan hij krijgen. Wat hij niet kan krijgen, wil hij niet. Zo eenvoudig is het recept voor geluk.

Excessive happiness! I never knew there was such a disorder. I didn't know you could be too happy.

People think that an expensive car--a stimulus--will lead to a response of happiness. If they have a great paying job--the proper stimulus, they believe--then their response will be happiness. But what if the opposite is true? What if happiness is the stimulus and the response is whatever life brings from that happiness?

What I did was focus on what I had and no on what I didn't have. Through that focus, I was able to make more changes.

All you can do is all you can do. But all you can do is enough

So most of us pray not for riches, but for just enough to assure our living in normal comfort and perhaps a little extra for funeral expenses at the end.

I am happiest when I am idle. I could live for months without performing any kind of labor, and at the expiration of that time I should feel fresh and vigorous enough to go right on in the same way for numerous more months.