Contentment Quotes

ur be the things I am wiser to know:Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.Four be the things I'd been better without:Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.Three be the things I shall never attain:Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.Three be the things I shall have till I die:Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye.

~ Dorothy Parker

We're all golden sunflowers inside.

~ Allen Ginsberg

And besides . . . I don’t want to leave you. Er, you guys.”He smiled, and it lit up his whole face. “Well, ‘we’ are certainly happy to hear that. Oh, and I’m also happy to watch our darling little love child dragon while you’re in St. Louis.”I grinned back.

~ Richelle Mead

Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

~ Mark Twain

It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.

~ Dale Carnegie

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough

~ Oprah Winfrey

A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.

~ Leo Tolstoy

Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

[F]or just one second, look at your life and see how perfect it is. Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there's nothing else. It's here, and you'd better decide to enjoy it or you're going to be miserable wherever you go, for the rest of your life, forever.

~ Lev Grossman

In a person's lifetime there may be not more than half a dozen occasions that he can look back to in the certain knowledge that right then, at that moment, there was room for nothing but happiness in his heart.

~ Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

Learn from yesterday, live for today, look to tomorrow, rest this afternoon.

~ Charles M. Schulz

Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.

~ Socrates

With a philosophy education, one can infuriate his peers, intimidate his date, think of obscure, unreliable ways to make money, and never regret a thing.

~ Criss Jami

I only seem negative to the fortunate. That's because I show the less fortunate that they aren't less fortunate after all.

~ Criss Jami

Live near to God, and so all things will appear to you little In comparison to eternal realities.--

~ Robert Murray Mccheyne

When I’m depressed, I read Caeiro — he’s my fresh air. I become very calm, content, faithful — yes, I find faith in God, and in the soul’s transcendent living smallness, after reading the poems by that ungodly anti-humanist who goes unsurpassed on earth.

~ Álvaro De Campos

That very breath wherewith they utter their complaints is a blessing and a fundamental one too for if God would withdraw that they were incapable of whatsoever else either have or desire.

~ Richard Allestree

Materialistic things cannot make you truly happy; it’s your faith in God that can bring real satisfaction. And ofcourse, the love you give and receive will fill your life with cheer as well as laughter.

~ Latika Teotia

Don't envy results, seek to know the process. Don't want a man's glory till you hear his story. Sometimes what you see is not even the destination, it's just the current location but the result of a long journey. God sometimes would bring you to a point where it is much more than the gift...He captures your heart. My friend, not everything in the kingdom is a gift, somethings are rewards.

~ Kingsley Opuwari Manuel

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.

~ Martha Washington

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

~ Epictetus

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

~ Socrates

Paradise was always over there, a day’s sail away. But it’s a funny thing, escapism. You can go far and wide and you can keep moving on and on through places and years, but you never escape your own life. I, finally, knew where my life belonged. Home.

~ J. Maarten Troost

Always remember that you were once alone, and the crowd you see in your life today are just as unecessary as when you were alone.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

You don't have to be part of a couple to be happy, you know.

~ Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Lord, make me nowAs happy as the field.With flowers enriched...

~ Eileen A. Soper

Happiness isn't a thing. You can't go out and get it like a cup of tea. It's the way you feel about things.

~ Diana Wynne Jones

Happiness can only be achieved by looking inward & learning to enjoy whatever life has and this requires transforming greed into gratitude.

~ John Chrysostom

Happy are those who evolve from within.

~ Amit Abraham

Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it, you must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it. If you don’t, you will leak away your innate contentment. It’s easy enough to pray when you’re in distress but continuing to pray even when your crisis has passed is like a sealing process, helping your soul hold tight to its good attainments.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

I think instead [of happiness] we should be working for contentment... an inner sense of fulfillment that's relatively independent of external circumstances.

~ Andrew Weil

(about William Blake)As for Blake's happiness--a man who knew him said: If asked whether I ever knew among the intellectual, a happy man, Blake would be the only one who would immediately occur to me.And yet this creative power in Blake did not come from ambition. ...He burned most of his own work. Because he said, I should be sorry if I had any earthly fame, for whatever natural glory a man has is so much detracted from his spiritual glory. I wish to do nothing for profit. I wish to live for art. I want nothing whatever. I am quite happy....He did not mind death in the least. He said that to him it was just like going into another room. On the day of his death he composed songs to his Maker and sang them for his wife to hear. Just before he died his countenance became fair, his eyes brightened and he burst into singing of the things he saw in heaven.

~ Brenda Ueland

Imagination doesn't always make you long for what you cannot have, but rather thrive in what you do not have.

~ Criss Jami

The midsummer sun shines but dim, The fields strive in vain to look gay; But when I am happy in Him December's as pleasant as May.

~ John Newton

Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come--as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.

~ Thomas Fuller

There had to be something wrong with my life. I should have been born a Yugoslavian shepherd who looked up at the Big Dipper every night.

~ Haruki Murakami

We just wanna be the happy bums that we are. That's all.

~ Mike Patton

I'm not happy but I'm not unhappy about it.

~ Alan Bennett

Satiety depends not at all on how much we eat, but on how we eat. It's the same with happiness, the very same...happiness doesn't depend on how many external blessings we have snatched from life. It depends only on our attitude toward them. There's a saying about it in the Taoist ethic: 'Whoever is capable of contentment will always be satisfied.

~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Be like the flower, content with its nature.

~ Seth D.