Contentment Quotes - Page 2

Let it be a small gain or big gain never do lesser than one's ability, let it be a pain or a pleasure never accept more than one's share.

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

You know someone's okay if they can ignore things they can't do anything about and move on.

The true measure of your success is the degree to which within you are truly content - and the depth to which others hold you with real love and respect

You don't have to be part of a couple to be happy, you know.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

Lord, make me now
As happy as the field.
With flowers enriched...

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

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.

I think instead [of happiness] we should be working for contentment... an inner sense of fulfillment that's relatively independent of external circumstances.

The midsummer sun shines but dim, The fields strive in vain to look gay; But when I am happy in Him December's as pleasant as May.

We just wanna be the happy bums that we are. That's all.

I'm not "happy" but I'm not unhappy about it.

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.

Satiety depends not at all on how much we eat, but on how we eat. It's the same with happiness, the very same...happiness doesn't depend on how many external blessings we have snatched from life. It depends only on our attitude toward them. There's a saying about it in the Taoist ethic: 'Whoever is capable of contentment will always be satisfied.

Be like the flower, content with its nature.

Happiness is wanting what you have.

Live near to God, and so all things will appear to you little In comparison to eternal realities.-

One honest John Tompkins, a hedger & ditcher,
Although he was poor, did not want to be richer;
For all such vain wishes in him were prevented
By a fortunate habit of being contented.