Contentment Quotes

We're all golden sunflowers inside.

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.

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

The world is already yours - why try to conquer it?

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

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.

Although we may wish for more or strive to do better than we have, in these times it is enough to keep your soul.

Sometimes in life there's no problem and sometimes there solution. Within this space - between these apparent poles - life flows.

What I see especially among the Navajos and the Zunis and the Hopis is a culture of people who have been smart enough to learn a lesson that we're awfully slow to get... They know that being rich doesn't have any damn thing to do with how much money you've got. It's got to do with are you happy and are you content.

There are still blue skies and rainbows and days bathed in sunlight.
There are colorful shade trees filled with sweet bird songs.
And there are wishing stars in the heavens as well as angels in God's service.
So lift up your eyes.
Refuse to be unhappy.

Happiness grows best in the soil of contentment.

I love everything that makes up a milieu, the rolling of the carriages and the noise of the workmen in Paris, the cries of a thousand birds in the country, the movement of the ships on the waters. I love also absolute, profound silence, and, in short, I love everything that is around me, no matter where I am.

Happiness is never found in materialistic things; it exists in things that cannot be physically possessed. Therefore, happiness is priceless. It can never be purchased. Love is happiness.

When we perform at our highest level of potential, we are content. Because we have given I best in what we enjoy doing.

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?

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

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

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.

Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.

he who is greedy is always in want