Quotes About Contentment

The "supreme good" and its attainment -- that is happiness. And joy is: response to happiness.

No matter how simple your life is as long as you're happy, then live with it....

Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity

Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.

One hope no sooner dies in us but another rises up in its stead. We are apt to fancy that we shall be happy and satisfied if we possess ourselves of such and such particular enjoyments; but either by reason of their emptiness, or the natural inquietude of the mind, we have no sooner gained one point, but we extend our hopes to another. We still find new inviting scenes and landscapes lying behind those which at a distance terminated our view.

Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other.

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

Blesses his stars and thinks it luxury.

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.

The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for.

True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

True happiness... arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self.

To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

I don't know that I spent any more time alone than any other kid, but being by myself never bothered me.

'Tis the gift to be simple, 'tis the gift to be free,'Tis the gift to come down where we ought to be,And when we find ourselves in the place just right,'Twill be in the valley of love and delight.

There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants--more than anything else--to become rich. As long as they don't have the money, it'll seem like a worthwhile goal. Once they do, they'll understand how important other things are--and have always been.

Happiness does not consist in self-love.

Find a place where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

basking in the truth that now and at last you are finally rich enough to be given things free.

The true peace of God begins at any spot a thousand miles from the nearest land.