Quotes About Contentment

You're not happy unless you think you're happy.

To be happy, I need to think about feeling good, feeling bad, and feeling right.

The words of the writer Colette had haunted me for years: "What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.

When money or health is a problem, you think of little else; when it's not a problem, you don't think much about it. Both money and health contribute to happiness mostly in negative; the lack of them brings much more unhappiness than possessing them brings happiness.

The opposite of happiness is unhappiness, not depression.

When life was taking its ordinary course, it was hard to remember what really mattered.

A happy home wasn't a place that I could furnish, but an attitude of mind I must develop.

It wasn't the amount of stuff; it was the engagement with that stuff [that mattered for happiness].

I had everything I could possibly want—yet I was failing to appreciate it. Bogged down in petty complaints and passing crises, weary of struggling with my own nature, I too often failed to comprehend the splendor of what I had.

Feeling right" is about living the life that's right for you—in occupation, location, marital status, and so on. It's also about virtue: doing your duty, living up to the expectations you set for yourself. For some people, "feeling right" can also include less elevated considerations: achieving a certain job status or material standard of living.

Feeling right" is about living the life that's right for you—in occupation, location, marital status, and so on. It's also about virtue: doing your duty

happiness is not having less; happiness is not having more; happiness is wanting what I have.

It is by studying little things, that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

But, as a follow-up, I asked myself, "Can money help buy happiness?" The answer: yes, used wisely, it can.

Behind our unremarkable front door waits the little world of our own making, a place of safety, exploration, comfort, and love.

At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough. —Toni Morrison, Tar Baby

studies show that the absence of feeling bad isn't enough to make you happy; you must strive to find sources of feeling good. One

Enjoy now." If I can enjoy the present, I don't need to count on the happiness that is (or isn't) waiting for me in the future. The fun part doesn't come later, now is the fun part. That's another reason I feel lucky to enjoy my work so much. If you're doing something that you don't enjoy and you don't have the gratification of success, failure is particularly painful. But doing what you love is itself the reward.

Another study suggested that getting one extra hour of sleep each night would do more for a person's daily happiness than getting a $ 60,000 raise.

I had everything that I could wish for; I wanted to make my home happier by appreciating how much happiness was already there.

getting one extra hour of sleep each night would do more for a person's daily happiness than getting a $60,000 raise.

It's a Secret of Adulthood: Happiness doesn't always make you feel happy.

One of the persistent follies of human nature is to imagine true happiness is just out of reach.

Gratitude brings freedom from envy, because when you're grateful for what you have, you're not consumed with wanting something different or something more. That, in turn, makes it easier to live within your means and also to be generous to others.