Contentment Quotes

You can be happy irrespective of what you have.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If you have life, you have everything.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You do not need many possessions to have a happy life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You have enough to share with the world; the gift of love, kindness, goodness, smiles, hugs, prayer, inspiration, fellowship, volunteerism and many more.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You can live without many wants.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

BEWARE DON'T RUN AFTER A MIRAGEWe were happier when we were poor. We were happier when we did not have good food to eat or good clothes to wear. We were happier when we did not have a luxurious life. We were happier when we did not have our own house because we had a home, a family and understood, loved and lived for each other. I have failed to understand what we run after even when we have all.

~ Amit Abraham

It was bittersweet and lovely how this thing called family could make you feel belonged, wanted and complete.

~ Diyar Harraz

Contentment isn’t something that just happens to you, Regan Lee, it’s a choice. You have to want exactly what you have.

~ A.p. Jensen

All roads out of hell lead home.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Pegging your contentment to the overall state of the world rather than of your own life: the basis of morality, or a sort of madness?

~ Alain De Botton

Until I was left with nothing but life and books, I realised these two gracious gifts, where enough for me to exist.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Courage uncovers strength, grace reveals beauty, vulnerability expresses humility, inner peace reflects contentment

~ Millen Livis

Daring faith, daring life.Daring life, graceful living.Graceful living, fullness of life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Rosa had achieved the sort of serene and confident happiness that Tamsin had never really known. She was connected to Roberto in a way that made Tamsin long for something similar. A man with whom she could share all parts of her life, someone to be her equal and her inspiration.

~ Emily Arden

Reality. It is sometimes brought through foreign eyes; because if you do not know any better, you cannot see the worse (and vice versa).

~ Criss Jami

Life is like a story, when all the resolution is resolved, you heave a sigh of relief.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

You have to open up to the world and learn optimism...Contentment with the past, happiness with the present, and hope for the future. Learned optimisim.

~ Jennifer Crusie

Happiness, after all, is generally measured as reported satisfaction with one's life - a state of mind perhaps more accessible to those who are affluent, who conform to social norms, who suppress judgment in the service of faith, and who are not overly bothered by societal injustice...The real conservatism of positive psychology lies in its attachment to the status quo, with all its inequalities and abuses of power. Positive psychologists' tests of happiness and well-being, for example, rest heavily on measures of personal contentment with things as they are.

~ Barbara Ehrenreich

Thankfulness is the life of contentment.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Compare your life only with the commandments of God.Be like God. He is the mighty being that dwells in you.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I am living my dreams.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Don't ignore the love you DO have in your life by focusing on the love you DON'T.

~ Mandy Hale

Keep your head up, your faith strong, and your eyes open for the little miracles all around you…because they are there, just waiting to be discovered.

~ Mandy Hale

Happy is still Happy, with or without the Ever After.

~ Mandy Hale

Enjoy losing weight. Enjoy eating healthy, delicious food. Do not wait until you reach your destination to feel good. Take as much happiness and joy as you can from your weight loss journey.

~ Harry Papas

She had had her momentary flowering, a year, perhaps, of wildrose beauty, and then she had suddenly swollen like a fertilized fruit and grown hard and red and coarse, and then her life had been laundering, scrubbing, laundering, first for children, then for grandchildren, over thirty years. At the end of it she was still singing.

~ George Orwell

What had she to wish for? Nothing, but to grow more worthy of him whose intentions and judgment had been ever so superior to her own.

~ Jane Austen

The greatest life is the joy of contentment.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The greatest life is joy of contentment.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Contentment is the joy of the soul.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

After each of his books, the writer, for a while, feels once again that he can now die happy.

~ Criss Jami

Imagined happiness is still happiness.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Live by your own sacred standard.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Be grateful for what you have and you will always have enough.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Contentment is joy of life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

To be happy without your wants is greatest contentment.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Living life with contentment is the greatest well-being.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

When you are happy with what you have, you are the happiest.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Contentment is the greatest joy.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If you stay open to the wisdom of your Muse, you may discover you’re a playwright, a sculptor, a kitchen-table comedian, a beacon of creative kindness, or a person who chooses grace over ego and contentment over greed. And in that choice you will create an world of joy within yourself, you’ll truly be an artist of being alive.

~ Jill Badonsky