Quotes About Contentment And Happiness In Life

#1. There is a distinct feeling of contentment that engulfs your entire being after a day well lived, a battle well fought, and a purpose tirelessly pursued.

Steve Maraboli

#2. Happiness was not a word that seemed to apply anymore, when she had lost so many close to her. There was a contentment that felt deeper, that acknowledged and accepted the quieter offerings of small joys-- of love and occasional peace in a life that was full of pain.

Peter Heller

#3. Above all, let us never forget that an act of goodness is in itself an act of happiness. It is the flower of a long inner life of joy and contentment; it tells of peaceful hours and days on the sunniest heights of our soul.

Maurice Maeterlinck

#4. To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problem of contentment.

George Edward Woodberry

#5. All that we are looking for in life - all the happiness, contentment, and peace of mind - is right here in the present moment.

Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

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

Millen Livis

#7. 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

#8. The beauty of the soul enfold in spiritual-life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#9. My dad's contentment is all that matters to me. When he's laughing, I'm laughing. When he's happy, I'm happy. I would give up my soul for him. To me, nothing else but his happiness matters.

Rebecah McManus

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

Mandy Hale

#11. Contentment is joy of life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#12. We take it for granted that life is hard and feel lucky to have whatever happiness we get. We do not look upon happiness as a birthright, nor do we expect it to be more than peace or contentment. Real joy, the state in which the Yequana spend much of their lives, is exceedingly rare among us.

Jean Liedloff

#13. 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

#14. Contentment is the greatest joy.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Lailah Gifty Akita

#16. This is what I would like to hold on to. Please help me memorize this feeling of contentment and help me always support it. I'm putting this happiness in a bank somewhere, not merely FDIC protected but guarded by my four spirit brothers, held there as insurance against future trials in life.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#17. Sharing your life with someone will have much more meaning coming from a place of independence rather than co-dependence.

Gary Hopkins

#18. 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

#19. True happiness isn't a disruption-free life, its learning to recognize the ever-present contentment amidst the disruptions of life. Go with the flow(non-resistance), and when you struggle, remember to be compassionate with yourself...

Maximus Freeman

#20. Joy of life is to be content.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#21. Life is contentment.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#22. If you are satisfied, you bring your satisfaction to the moment and fill the circumstances of your life with that satisfaction. If you are dissatisfied, however, no one and nothing can produce contentment for you.

Shya Kane

#23. When you have enough, there is no need for excessiveness.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#24. 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

#25. People will ask you the question 'how is life treating you?' But my question is 'how are you treating life?' On that your happiness rests

Rasheed Ogunlaru

#26. We find that the more a cultivated reason devotes itself to the aim of enjoying life and happiness, the further does man get away from true contentment.

Immanuel Kant

#27. Initially, the positive emotions derived from cultivating our higher natures may be weak, but we can enhance them through constant familiarity, making our experiences of happiness and inner contentment far more powerful than a life abandoned to purely impulsive emotions.

Dalai Lama XIV

#28. But what now if all the peace, the comfort, the contentment were to come to a horrible end?

Franz Kafka

#29. Real joy, the kind that permeates your life and brings contentment to your soul comes from service. So no, happiness is not the word. Purpose. Contentment. Joy. To find those things, don't seek happiness. Search instead for those who need your gift and give it away.

Mia Sheridan

#30. Life, liberty and the pursuit of gratitude, now that would've worked. They would have been readily led to contentment, which would've then better lead them on to happiness.

Geoffrey Wood

#31. Having happy kids is far more important than anything they'll ever accomplish. Without happiness success and contentment is always hard to reach.

Ron Baratono

#32. The happier person is one, that acknowledges and accepts life won't get any better than this.

Anthony Liccione

#33. Contentment and happiness didn't exist in my life for more than a few moments at a time, and they were really only illusionary. There was always something hidden. Lying in wait to spring up and ruin everything.

Sylvia Day

#34. So much in life depends on our attitude. The way we choose to see things and respond to others makes all the difference. To do the best we can and then to choose to be happy about our circumstances, whatever they may be, can bring peace and contentment.

Thomas S. Monson

#35. I did have a very restricted, regimented life. There was a kind of happiness there, a contentment, but it was a small happiness within very clear and delineated borders.

Daniel Tammet

#36. Thankfulness is the life of contentment.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#37. The welfare, the happiness, the energy and spirit of the men and women who do the daily workis the underlying necessity of all prosperity ... There can be nothing wholesome unless their life is wholesome; there can be no contentment unless they are contented.

Woodrow Wilson

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

Lailah Gifty Akita

#39. Contentment is a state of mind and body when the two work in harmony, and there is no friction. The mind is at peace, and the body also. The two are sufficient to themselves. Happiness is elusive
coming perhaps once in a life-time
and approaching ectasy.

Daphne Du Maurier

#40. Live by your own sacred standard.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#41. When the symphony of life fills your heart, the chorus of contentment joins in.

Tom Althouse

#42. Contentment is indispensable joy.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Eleanor Roosevelt

#44. 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

#45. Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers.

Jennifer E. Smith

#46. 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

#47. Being satisfied with the little we have; academically, spiritually, financially, ecumenically or otherwise will prevent a lot of problems from coming to us, and our dependence in our abilities and talents will go as far as bringing us satisfaction in life.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#48. God says only one thing if you want to have attachment towards worldly life; go ahead and get attached to it; or else, get attached to Me. If you get attached to Me, you will get permanent happiness and if you get attached to the worldly life, you will not find contentment!

Dada Bhagwan

#49. Just resign yourself to the fact that you're going to be miserable so you can finally be happy. (It's a sound theory if you think about it hard enough.)

Richelle E. Goodrich

#50. I am thankful when I am hungry because then I know that when I eat, the food will taste better. Life has taught me that my true contentment rests in hope, and the pleasure itself is secondary. It is self-awareness, not happiness, that maintains peace.

Criss Jami

#51. I must die. Must I then die lamenting? I must be put in chains. Must I then also lament? I must go into exile. Does any man then hinder me from going with smiles and cheerfulness and contentment?

Epictetus

#52. 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

#53. Perhaps it's because I appreciate all I have so much that I don't worry about what I haven't got.

Leo Tolstoy

#54. It is downright incredible that an extremely significant proportion of people make the wrong choice. But the good news is that we can course-correct at any stage in our life and get back on the path to finding true happiness and contentment.

Lamees Alhassar

#55. Life is messy though, you know? Sometimes it's worth it to jump in and get your hands dirty. Happiness and contentment don't come along very often, so when they do, you need to hold on with everything you've got. If it doesn't work out, it doesn't work out, but at least you can say you tried.

Cate Ashwood

#56. 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

#57. I use the term happiness to refer to the experience of joy, contentment, or positive well-being, combined with a sense that one's life is good, meaningful, and worthwhile.

Sonja Lyubomirsky

#58. My demon is hating to have to do a regular day job. Being up on stage really helps me forget I have a life like that - when I did have a life like that. I find complete contentment and happiness when I'm playing in front of an audience.

Steve "Lips" Kudlow

#59. Life is your greatest asset.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#60. To be happy without your wants is greatest contentment.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#61. Happiness is a great contentment.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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

John Chrysostom