Top 100 Quotes About Contentment And Happiness
#1. 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
#2. True wealth is contentment, and happiness is forgetting to worry how you are and how much you have.
Robert Thurman
#3. Contentment and happiness are blessings that are given only to those who follow the straight path
Syeikh Aidh Al Qarni
#4. Stumble on joy
the phrase had knocked something loose in him. Joy: What did it feel like? Trying to remember, he was overcome by longing. He knew satisfaction, the exhilaration of success, contentment, and happiness to the extent he could identify it. But joy?
Amy Waldman
#5. Self-control, in every station and to every individual, is indispensable, if people would retain that equanimity of mind, which, depending on self-respect, is the essential of contentment and happiness.
Sarah Josepha Hale
#6. 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
#7. Contentment and happiness! Do everything happily. Walk,
talk, sit happily; even if you complain against somebody,
do it happily.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#8. I don't think I've ever known what you people call happiness. We think of contentment as the desirable thing, and maybe that's negative.
John Steinbeck
#9. 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
#10. You know someone's okay if they can ignore things they can't do anything about and move on.
Jo Nesbo
#11. 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
#12. People get a little sidelined thinking that fame and fortune is going to bring them happiness, peace and contentment in their lives. Everyone thinks they want to be famous until the paparazzi are in their face, and then they're asking, 'Just give me some privacy.'
Linda Thompson
#13. I think service to others is the real key to winning our own personal freedom and the road to our own happiness, our own personal contentment and fulfillment.
Martin Sheen
#14. 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
#15. There's such a thing as too much happiness and sadness. What I'm after is contentment.
Ray Charles
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. Men who are driven are happy in their work and their vision but are not happy-go-lucky. Evelyn has a happiness and contentment most of the time
she's my balance.
Oral Roberts
#19. And where was happiness if it sprung not from the soil? Where contentment if it dwelt not near to Nature?
Ellen Glasgow
#20. I have received and I want to give. This is the path to happiness and contentment.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#21. I have found contentment and joy in being exactly where God wants me to be, and that is what makes me happy.
Megan Carson
#22. A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being.
James E. Faust
#23. Reconsidering Happiness captures all the contradictory impulses of falling in and out of love-the lust and wanderlust, the contentment and restlessness, the secret loyalties, the hard compromises. Sherrie Flick has written a wise and elegant novel.
John Dalton
#24. Happiness is seeing blessings in disguise, beauty under camouflage, and love amid conflict.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#25. Happiness is the twin sister of optimism and the twin brother of contentment.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#26. 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
#28. Happiness, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some simple issue, some single turning of the soul.
George A. Smith
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. The happier person is one, that acknowledges and accepts life won't get any better than this.
Anthony Liccione
#32. He brewed his tea in a blue china pot, poured it into a chipped white cup with forget-me-nots on the handle, and dropped in a dollop of honey and cream. He sat by the window, cup in hand, watching the first snow fall. "I am," he sighed deeply, "contented as a clam. I am a most happy man.
Ethel Pochocki
#33. Enlightenment, the great mysterious state of mind, is contentment, or freedom from suffering. How then do we measure happiness? We measure it in smiles, in the openness of our hearts, in generosity, in gratitude and compassion towards others, and in the steadiness of our contentment.
Andrew Furst
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. Good fortune, contentment, peace, happiness have never been able to deceive me for long. I expected the worst, and I was right. So much for the dream of man.
Wallace Stegner
#40. Achieving one's goal is the key to one's happiness and contentment.
Joey Lawsin
#41. He believed that the secret of happiness was to concentrate on things outside oneself. Introspection and self-awareness were the enemies of contentment, and
James Runcie
#42. 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
#43. Happiness comes out of contentment, and contentment always comes out of service.
Harbhajan Singh
#44. True happiness is the contentment of soul, and the joy of inner heart.
Flora D.
#45. 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
#46. Happiness is open to all, since, when you boil it down, it merely consists of contentment with what you have got and doing what you can for other people.
Robert Baden-Powell
#47. Happiness is the contentment in the heart, peace of mind, a sense of stability, a right attitude and being content with what is sufficient.
Moazzam Shaikh
#48. When I went into their family, it was the abode of happiness and contentment. The mistress of the house was a model of affection and tenderness. Her fervent piety and watchful uprightness made it impossible to see her without thinking and feeling - that woman is a Christian.
Frederick Douglass
#49. When we do what is right, we have contentment, peace and happiness.
Beverly LaHaye
#50. We would all say that deep down, all we want is to be happy. Yet we don't have a realistic understanding of what happiness really is. Happiness is closer to the experience of acceptance and contentment than it is to pleasure.
Noah Levine
#51. If you walk in joy, happiness is close behind.
Todd Stocker
#52. There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.
Chanakya
#53. Happiness can only be achieved by looking inward & learning to enjoy whatever life has and this requires transforming greed into gratitude.
John Chrysostom
#54. While being you and truly sharing what you do will bring happiness to others, you won't find contentment merely trying to keep others happy.
Rasheed Ogunlaru
#55. The road to happiness starts with a deep breath and an awareness of the many blessings tied to that single breath.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#56. Mothers are the place that we call home. On them we rest our heads and close our eyes. There's no one else who grants the same soft peace, happiness, contentment, sweet release, erasing righttime tears with lullabies, restoring the bright sun that makes us bloom.
Nick Gordon
#57. It's like getting an extraordinary meal after you've been eating junk food for a long time. The taste just sweeps through your sensibilities, bringing all-out contentment, and the sheer goodness of it makes up for every bad meal you ever had.
Joan Bauer
#58. Live near to God, and so all things will appear to you little In comparison to eternal realities.
Robert Murray McCheyne
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. True art must be evidence of happiness, contentment and purity of its authors.
Mahatma Gandhi
#62. What is the difference between happiness and contentment?"
"Well, happy is like when somebody gives you a big hunk of something wonderful and it's too big to hold. So you pull off a piece from time to time to hold in your hand. that's being contented. anyway, that's the way i look at it.
Betty Smith
#63. Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.
Laurence Sterne
#64. 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
#65. Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.
Mahatma Gandhi
#66. Happiness is closer to the experience of acceptance and contentment than it is to pleasure. True happiness exists as the spacious and compassionate heart's willingness to feel whatever is present.
Noah Levine
#67. True happiness comes from having a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved by cultivating altruism, love and compassion, and by eliminating anger, selfishness and greed.
Dalai Lama
#68. One has to learn contentment, forgiveness, and purpose on her own before the universe allows her to share her happiness with another soul.
Benyf
#69. We are creatures whose behavior cannot be simply explained as a striving for survival and happiness, for release of tension and contentment.
Adolf Guggenbhuhl-Craig
#70. 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
#71. As we sometimes find one thing while we are looking for another, so, if truth escaped me, happiness and contentment fell in my way.
Walter Savage Landor
#72. Happiness, or contentment, comes from where we look and what we believe, not from what we have.
Lydia Brownback
#74. 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
#75. We can't direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. For maximum happiness, peace, and contentment, may we choose a positive attitude.
Thomas S. Monson
#76. Do not blindly believe what others say. See for yourself what brings contentment, clarity and peace. That is the path for you to follow.
Gautama Buddha
#77. I'm proud to have been a Yankee. But I have found more happiness and contentment since I came back home to San Francisco than any man has a right to deserve. This is the friendliest city in the world.
Joe DiMaggio
#78. So many of the people I admired - the musicians, the artists, the writers - created their greatest works not during a period of happiness and contentment, but during a period of struggle.
Adam Braun
#80. Contentment is just the realization that God has already provided for me today all that I need for my present peace and happiness.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
#81. 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
#82. 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
#83. It doesn't matter if you're rich or poor-the determining factor of success and happiness is contentment.
Sakyong Mipham
#84. When the turbulence of distracting thoughts subside and our mind becomes still, a deep happiness and contentment naturally arises from within.
Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
#85. There is a difference between happiness, the supreme good, and the final end or goal toward which our actions ought to tend. For happiness is not the supreme good, but presupposes it, being the contentment or satisfaction of the mind which results from possessing it.
Rene Descartes
#87. 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
#88. It's not what you have on the outside that glitters in light, it's what you have on the inside that shines in the dark.
Anthony Liccione
#89. 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
#90. The sense of contentment is a key factor for attaining happiness. Bodily health, material wealth and companions and friends are three factors for happiness. Contentment is the key that will determine the outcome of your relations with all three of these factors.
Dalai Lama XIV
#91. No one's happy here, you know that. But I am content, and maybe that's enough for me.
Melissa De La Cruz
#92. The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.
Martha Washington
#93. The top of the band would be happiness, contentment and peace of mind.
Frederick Lenz
#94. Never let them try out this gratitude, for they would immediately discover that it supplies the first and most important component to happiness: Contentment.
Geoffrey Wood
#95. My personal opinion is that the neutral position on the mood spectrum - what I called emotional sea level - is not
happiness but rather contentment and the calm acceptance that is the goal of many kinds of spiritual practice.
Andrew Weil
#96. 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
#97. Whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him (Hebrews 11:6, emphasis added). Call that payoff contentment, satisfaction, peace, or excitement - it all adds up to one word: happiness
Randy Alcorn
#98. Happiness is not synonymous with pleasure. It is, instead, a deeper emotion that originates from within ... Happiness results from a sense of mental and moral contentment with who we are, what we value, and how we invest our time and resources for purposes beyond ourselves.
David Shi
#99. Money doesn't make you happy," Mom insists, whipping carrots and lettuce out of the cart. "Money doesn't make you laugh when you're lonely, or make you full of contentment on Christmas morning.
Roxanne St. Claire
#100. 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
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