Top 100 Happy Content Quotes
#1. You must not be angry with me for having been so sad yesterday; I was very happy, very content, but in my very best moments I am always for some reason sad.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#2. Want to be happy? Don't live competitively. Be content who you are. Live at peace with yourself and the losers below you.
Dana Gould
#4. All artists and creative people are basically unhappy people. If you were happy, that would mean you were content with the world as it was and why would you ever want to change it?
Peter Schjeldahl
#5. O blessed bounty, giving ail content!
The only fautress of all noble arts
That lend'st success to every good intent.
A grace that rests in the most godlike hearts,
By heav'n to none but happy souls infus'd
Pity it is, that e'er thou wast abus'd.
Michael Drayton
#6. I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel.
(Audrey Hepburn: Many-Sided Charmer, LIFE Magazine, December 7, 1953)
Audrey Hepburn
#7. Happy he whoe'er, content with the common lot, with safe breeze hugs the shore, and, fearing to trust his skiff to the wider sea, with unambitious oar keeps close to the land.
Seneca The Younger
#9. Happy is the person who has learned the secret of being content with whatever life brings him, and has learned to rejoice in the
simple and beautiful things around him.
Billy Graham
#10. I was not happy as a child, although from time to time I was content.
Neil Gaiman
#11. He is in heaven now, and happy; or if not there, he bides in hell and is content; for in that place he will find neither abbot nor yet bishop.
Mark Twain
#12. About happy endings. Folk like a story to finish well. Doesn't matter if that's true to life or not. Helps to hear about folk being content. About good folk getting what they deserve. While you're listening you can believe, for a bit, that you're good too. Worth a happy ending.
Juliet Marillier
#13. IT'S MY CHOICE
I get a gift every morning, the gift of a new day,
It's up to me whether I make it bright, joyful or grey.
I can choose to be Happy, Successful and Content,
Or dishonor it with worry, anger or resent.
Maddy Malhotra
#14. Zach was sitting in the passenger seat, seemingly calm and happy and content with his place in the world. The git.
Mil Millington
#15. No wonder that my remembrance fails me, for I shall complete my 70 years next Sunday (the 22); - and during these 70 years I have had a happy life; which still remains happy because of hope and content.
Michael Faraday
#16. Before my unfeeling eyes, the repressed bitterness of my whole life peels off the suit of natural joy it wears in the prolonged randomness of every day. I realize that I'm always sad, however happy or content I may often feel. And the part of me that realizes this stands a little behind me ...
Fernando Pessoa
#17. It seems to me that the secret of true happiness in life is to know what you are and then be content to be that, in style, head up and proud, and not yearn to be something else ...
Robert A. Heinlein
#18. I am so happy, so in love, and so content.
Brooke Burns
#19. We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.
Horace
#20. You see another who looks thirsty.
Walking over to them, you nudge them on the back.
They look at you, and you gesture toward the lake with your head.
You and the other walk over there, and you are content and you are happy.
You are home.
Amanda Leigh
#21. I don't think that I am happy,
but then again, I don't know.
Sometimes I get so caught up
in the process of living--
of eating, dressing, taking the train to work,
that I don't give it enough thought.
Maybe happiness is being content.
But is it really?
Samantha Schutz
#22. Genuinely happy people do not just sit around being content. They make things happen. They pursue new understandings, seek new achievements, and control their thoughts and feelings.
Dan Buettner
#23. Always be excited about your life. Try to find and create beauty in and around you. Give away your love and smiles as much as you can. Be content and happy with what you have.
Debasish Mridha
#24. I think I'm someone who is pretty happy with themselves and pretty content where they are in life. I want to share my happiness and hopefully enrich people's lives that I come into contact with.
Michael Waltrip
#25. I mean you can be with the person, but still be yourself. You can be happy to be yourself. It's very ... nice," her grandmother had said quietly. "When you're with a person who is content to let you be. It's the most peaceful thing in the world.
Alisha Rai
#26. Forever be happy, never be content, and always know the difference.
Hal Elrod
#27. I've always thought the best relationships are those that are as happy and content in silence as they are in action [ ... ]
Stephanie Perkins
#28. I have assessed my happiness ratio and this is the result. I am totally content whenever the ones I love are happy about something little, big, insignificant, whatever. I just don't think anyone could possibly have the same wonderful, intense, compelling feelings that I have for this family of mine.
Diane Keaton
#29. If you are searching for your purpose in life then you're never going to be satisfied. This life will never satisfy you. You'll never be happy and you'll never be content. The only really contentment or true happiness is with Christ.
Mark Teixeira
#30. There is so much to love and to admire in this life that it is an act of ingratitude not to be happy and content in this existence.
Lin Yutang
#31. Water, in Grace, is an all-or-nothing proposition, like happiness. When you have rain you have more than enough, just as when you're happy and in love and content with your life, you can't remember how you ever could have felt cheated by fate.
Barbara Kingsolver
#32. Seeing my friends succeed, find love, or just feeling content makes me feel unconditionally happy.
Troian Bellisario
#33. I am content and happy with my situation and like the flexibility that comes with being self-employed. And it's nice to know that I can contribute something to society
Rhonda Byrne
#34. Happy the land where the writers are sad, the merchants satisfied, the rich melancholic, and the populace content.
Madame De Stael
#35. Give a bull grass, sweet water and a willing heifer and he is happy. But a man is never content. If no gadflies of worry exist he will invent them.
Alison Fell
#36. Into my heart an air that kills
From yon far country blows:
What are those blue remembered hills,
What spires, what farms are those?
That is the land of lost content,
I see it shining plain,
The happy highways where I went
And cannot come again.
A.E. Housman
#37. Best thing that's ever happened to me. I focus so much less on me. It's made me content, it's made me happy. It's like a Christmas present every single day that I get to unwrap. It's hard work.
Molly Sims
#38. But one never quite reached the point at which one could relax and know that one had made it through to the other side of suffering and could now be simply content, even happy, inside a balanced mix of body, mind, and spirit.
Mary Balogh
#39. I look at her face, so content, so happy. Even more beautiful all flushed with passion and think of how lucky a man I really am.
A.R. Von
#40. I am happy and content with and within myself.
David Hope
#41. Oh god
Let all lovers be content
Give them happy endings
Let their lives be celebrations
Let their hearts dance in the fire of your love
Rumi
#43. Maybe we all live life at too high a pitch, those of us who absorb emotional things all day, and as mere consequence we can never feel merely content: we have to be unhappy, or ecstatically, head-over-heels happy, and those states are difficult to achieve within a stable, solid relationship.
Nick Hornby
#44. India profoundly changed my outlook on life because you see how people can be content and very happy with little or even no possessions. It's the reverse of the West.
Gary Wright
#45. I may never be happy, but tonight I am content.
Sylvia Plath
#46. Contentment is a state of happiness and satisfaction. The choices we make are our own decisions for how we want to live our life.
Ellen J. Barrier
#47. The secret to a happy marriage is if you can be at peace with someone within four walls, if you are content because the one you love is near to you, either upstairs or downstairs, or in the same room, and you feel that warmth that you don't find very often, then that is what love is all about.
Bruce Forsyth
#48. [on the secret to a happy, content life]
Do you want to know what my secret is? I don't mind what happens.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#50. Be content with what you have. You have enough to live a happy life.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#51. Go ahead, tell him that everything is going to be fine. All the meatsacks are perfectly content on their happy little island, Sarren has given up world destruction to raise kittens, and the magic wish fairy will wave her want and turn shit to gold.
Julie Kagawa
#52. Content may dwell in all stations. To be low but above contempt may be high enough to be happy.
Thomas Browne
#53. I am a dolt of a man, easily made happy or even stupidly happy almost without cause and left alone I am mostly content.
Charles Bukowski
#54. Life is but a carousel of four seasons. Unpredictable for the most part. Happy. Unhappy. Content. Searching. Mess up the order, and they still rebound at one point or another.
Tarryn Fisher
#55. If she come, I be happy. If she don't, I be content.
Alice Walker
#56. I realize that I wasn't happy. I was content. There's a world of difference between happy and content.
Anonymous
#57. Be content, Be grateful, Be loving, Be happy, and this lifestyle will not only change YOUR life, it will change OUR world. I finally grasped the true meaning of let go- let God. (An excerpt from Finding Inner Peace)
Alice Hocker
#58. If your not making much money doing what you hate, then break free, follow your dreams, and be a writer for the same rate.
Aaron Lauritsen
#59. When it's all said and done, I hope to die with a smile on my face.
Anthony Liccione
#60. I expected you to look ... content, happy even, after your alone time with Sammi, not all mopey and depressed. You didn't screw up, did you? Don't all Kings make love perfectly?
Donna Grant
#61. I was so happy and content with in life playing music. Music was always my first job and my day gig was my second job.
Bo Bice
#62. You make me feel so safe. She brought her knees up and tucked her head beneath his chin, curling up like a kitten on his chest. If he died now, he would die happy. His chest expanded and his whole body felt alive with pleasant sensations. He could be content to stay here, without moving, forever.
Melanie Dickerson
#63. I'd rather have weeks, days, hours with you happy and content than a lifetime filled with regret.
Faith Sullivan
#64. If it were now to die,
'Twere now to be most happy, for I fear
My soul hath her content so absolute
That no other comfort, like to this
Succeeds in unknown fate
William Shakespeare
#65. I'm at a place in my life right now where I'm very happy, very content. I'm finally OK with the idea of who I love, who I want to be with.
Sheryl Swoopes
#66. At a night like this,
where it's just me and the yellow moon,
I feel complete.
Kamand Kojouri
#67. It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.
Victor Hugo
#68. Did you think you could dump me, and I'd bounce back to her and miraculously be happy? I'm not a Ping-Pong ball. You can't just swat me back and forth and expect me to be content wherever I land. If Tod dumped you tomorrow, would you come back to me?
Rachel Vincent
#69. Nothing is miserable but what is thought so, and contrariwise, every estate is happy if he that bears it be content.
Boethius
#70. Let me be content with being happy, without sighing that I am not distinguished.
Anna Seward
#71. When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#72. Being happy is knowing how to be content with little
Epicurus
#73. Great people aren't those who are happy at times of convienience and content, but of how they are in times of catastrophy and controversy.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#74. Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.
Alexander Pope
#75. Explosive emotional reaction out of all proportion to the occasion. Why? Why this unreasonable anger at the sight of others who are happy or content, this growing contempt for people and the desire to hurt them?
Truman Capote
#76. But for life's little defeats and indignities, I would be happy, content and completely average.
Mark Rude
#77. She knew she had never been truly alive until she met him, and never so happy and content with her lot until she was touched by the sorrow of him.
Martine Leavitt
#78. There will be no real content among American women unless they are made and kept more ignorant or unless they are given equal opportunity with men to use what they have been taught. And American men will not be really happy until their women are.
Pearl S. Buck
#79. I do want more. I am not content with being happy. I was not made for it. It is not my destiny. My destiny is the opposite.
Hermann Hesse
#80. I made the decision that, to be happy and to be content, I needed to live the life of an exclusive homosexual. I don't mean an elitist homosexual, but I mean someone who is exclusively pursuing partners of the same gender.
Christopher Rice
#81. I didn't want to get into acting. I was very happy doing MTV, it took up my time, I was content.
Nafisa Joseph
#82. Sometimes people have a wild past because they have an essentially wild nature, and that's how they plan to go through life. Sometimes such people settle into happy monogamy, and can be content there because they never have to wonder, "What did I miss?"
Emily Yoffe
#83. The more people have, the less content they seem to be. In America, the cultural expectation that we're to be happy all the time and our children are to be happy all the time is toxic, and I think that really gets in the way of emotional well-being.
Andrew Weil
#84. I'm content. I want to have better success in the tournaments than I've had, but I know I'm playing well, so I'm happy with that.
David Duval
#85. When first I saw Isidore, I believed he would help me to enjoy it I believed he would be content with my being a pretty girl; and that we should meet and part and flutter about like two butterflies, and be happy
Charlotte Bronte
#86. I'm happy and content in my life, and I chalk that up to wonderful parents and a wonderful God.
Condoleezza Rice
#87. No one's happy here, you know that. But I am content, and maybe that's enough for me.
Melissa De La Cruz
#88. To be truly happy and contented, you must let go of what it means to be happy or content.
Confucius
#89. Tradition with all its happy assumptions and necessary evils, all of its content majorities and stout killers, is not always a reliable guide.
Matthew Scully
#90. It's easy to impress me. I don't need a fancy party to be happy. Just good friends, good food, and good laughs. I'm happy. I'm satisfied. I'm content.
Maria Sharapova
#91. If you're not content with the small things, then you won't be content with the big things.
Anthony Liccione
#92. I loved her enough to forget myself, my self pitying despairs, and be content that something she thought happy was going to happen.
Truman Capote
#93. As we transform ourselves into creatures of the screen, we face an existential question: Does our essence still lie in what we know, or are we now content to be defined by what we want? If we don't grapple with that question ourselves, our gadgets will be happy to answer it for us.
Deborah Blum
#94. We are a happy people, content with what life has given us. We don't covet anything that others have. And we are happy with who we are.
Morgan Rice
#95. Few things are needed to make a wise man happy; nothing can make a fool content; that is why most men are miserable.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#96. If you can't be happy and content by yourself then you shouldn't be in a relationship.
Evan Sutter
#97. The only depth where I can breathe, and don't need to fight for air, is in your love.
Anthony Liccione
#99. I'm not sure if I'm most happy when I'm comfortable and content or when I'm pushing myself to the limits. There are such different versions of happy, and I really appreciate both.
Kristen Stewart
#100. A rack of mugs rested alongside. There were two hand-drawn labels affixed to the decanters. "Happy Tea!" read one, above a drawing of a wide-eyed, grinning Human with frizzy hair standing on end. "Boring Tea," read the other. The Human drawn there looked content, but indifferent.
Becky Chambers