Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. — Iris Murdoch
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
Happiness consists not of having, but of being. It is a warm glow of the heart at peace with itself. — David O. Mckay
Who is happy? This is a person, who has a healthy body, is dowered with peace of mind and cultivates his talents. — Thales
True contentment is not having everything, but in being satisfied with everything you have. — Oscar Wilde
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
A contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not. — Akhenaton
Short Happy And Content Quotes
Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want. — Alan Cohen
My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more. — Charles Lamb
Contentment is the only real wealth. — Alfred Nobel
Contentment is knowing you're right. Happiness is knowing someone else is wrong. — Bill Bailey
A contented mind is the best source for trouble. — Plautus
If you can be content right now, then you'll always be content, because it's always right now. — Willie Nelson
Happiness belongs to the self sufficient. — Aristotle
Happy And Content Image Quotes
Don't promise when you're happy. Don't reply when you're angry and don't decide when you're sad.
Feeling Happy And Content Quotes
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. — Buddha
How to Pick a Career Quotes: Chasing happiness is an amateur move. Feeling contentment in those times when your choices and your circumstances have combined to pull it off, and knowing you have all that you could ever ask for, is for the wise. — Tim Urban
Chasing happiness is an amateur move. Feeling contentment in those times when your choices and your circumstances have combined to pull it off, and knowing you have all that you could ever ask for, is for the wise. — Tim Urban
Never regret anything that made you smile.
Don't be content in your life just to do no wrong, be prepared every day to try and do some good. — Nicholas Winton
The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. — Benjamin Franklin
Every human being has the right to search for happiness, and by 'happiness' is meant something that makes other people feel content.
Paulo Coelho Quotes From Like the Flowing River
“Every human being should keep alive within them the sacred flame of madness, but should behave as a normal person. — Paulo Coelho
The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.
Reduce your wants and lead a happy and contented life. Never hurt the feelings of others and be kind to all. Think of God as soon as you get up and when you go to bed. — Dharma Mittra
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
What is good? All that enhances the feeling of power, the Will to Power, and power itself in man. What is bad? — All that proceeds from weakness. What is happiness? — The feeling that power is increasing — that resistance has been overcome. — Friedrich Nietzsche
This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification. — Herman Hesse
So Happy And Content Quotes
Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it. — Boethius
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
Those who are unconquered in spirit are the real successes in life. If you can so train or condition your mind that you are content regardless of what you have or do not have, and if you can stand the challenge of all your trials and remain calm-that is true happiness. — Paramahansa Yogananda
Life is like a piano, the white keys represent happiness and the black shows sadness, but as you go through life's journey, remember that the black keys also makes music.
What is wanted for the nonce is, that folks should be as agreeable as possible in conversation and demeanor; so that good humor may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in societ. — William Makepeace Thackeray
I'm so lucky to be crazy happy in my life. And I think it's not so much that I'm happier now than ever; it's that I'm more content. I'm in the harbor of my life. — Julia Roberts
I am so happy, so in love, and so content. — Brooke Burns
Don't let your happiness depend on something you may lose.
Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort. — Abraham Lincoln
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
If people get all the sex they can handle, they're so happy and content they just sit around and smile. I mean, you never feel aggressive just after you've gotten laid, right? Lots of sex for everybody, that's a solution to the world's problems. — Ted Turner
Nothing is miserable but what is thought so, and contrariwise, every estate is happy if he that bears it be content. — Boethius
Being Happy And Content Quotes
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
Oh what a happy soul am I although I cannot see, I am resolved that in this world contented I shall be. How many blessings I enjoy that other people don't. To weep and sigh, because I'm blind? I cannot and I won't. — Fanny Crosby
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful. — Norman Vincent Peale
God may allow His servant to succeed when He has disciplined him to a point where he does not need to succeed to be happy. The man who is elated by success and is cast down by failure is still a carnal man. At best his fruit will have a worm in it. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
When the turbulence of distracting thoughts subside and our mind becomes still, a deep happiness and contentment naturally arises from within. — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
Do not set aside your happiness. Do not wait to be happy in the future. The best time to be happy is always now.
I want Thy plan, O God, for my life. May I be happy and contented whether in the homeland or on the foreign field; whether married or alone, in happiness or sorrow, health or sickness, prosperity or adversity -- I want Thy plan, O God, for my life. I want it; oh, I want it. — Oswald J. Smith
I just want to be happy. You know what I’m saying? I just want to be happy, and I want to be able to make somebody else happy. — Puff Daddy
Anyone can live contentedly in circumstances of ease and comfort, health and well-being gratification and felicity; but to remain happy and contented in the face of difficulty, hardship and the onslaught of disease and sickness-this is an indication of nobility. — Abdu'l-Bahá
Keep da money, cars, fame, and jewelry, and jus give me all the happiness – I’ll be good forever. — 21 Savage
I Am Happy And Content Quotes
I am happy, and I am living the life I always dreamed of. — Kylian Mbappe
I am happy at Tottenham. I go into work every day with a smile on my face, and that is important. — Harry Kane
I'm going to be me at the end of the day. And I think my family appreciates that. They're happy for me that I'm finding out who I am, and I'm content with that. — Kevin Durant
Never regret a day in your life: good days give happiness, bad days give experience, worst days give lessons, and best days give memories.
For now I'm happy the way I am – short and plump. I would not go in for Botox or anything like that. I'm content with the way I look. What's wrong with looking like Susan Boyle? What's the matter with that? — Susan Boyle
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
Wealth, position, fame, and even elusive happiness will be mine, eventually, if I determine to render more and better service, each day, than I am being paid to render. Those who reach the top are the ones who are not content with. — Og Mandino
In my own life I know that my state of cheerfulness is a reliable gauge of my level of spiritual enlightenment at that moment. The more cheerful, happy, contented, and satisfied I am feeling, the more aware I am of my deep connection to Spirit. — Wayne Dyer
I am quite my own master, agreeably lodged, perfectly easy in my circumstances. I am contented with my situation, and happy because I think myself so. — Alain-Rene Lesage
I am too easily contented with a slight and almost animal happiness. My happiness is a good deal like that of the woodchucks. — Henry David Thoreau
Happy And Content With Life Quotes
Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness. — Kahlil Gibran
They say that extroverts are unhappier than introverts and have to compensate for this by constantly proving to themselves how happy and contented and at ease with life they are. — Paulo Coelho
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
Happiness is letting go of what you think your life is supposed to look like and celebrating it for everything that it is.
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
If one's life is simple, contentment has to come. Simplicity is extremely important for happiness. Having few desires, feeling satisfied with what you have, is very vital: satisfaction with just enough food, clothing, and shelter to protect yourself from the elements. — Dalai Lama
In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask, 'why don't I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden,' and they abandon their values. — Thich Nhat Hanh
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
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
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
Those who don't have a life filled with luxury may have a home filled with compassion, based on their choice to be content and to practice self-discipline. Even when we have physical hardships, we can be very happy. — Dalai Lama
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
What Is A Happy Quotes
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility. — Leo Tolstoy
love of learning is the most necessary passion ... in it lies our happiness. It's a sure remedy for what ails us, an unending source of pleasure. — Emilie du Chatelet
I'm not interested in fame and glory. It's just that I would like others to know what a happy dance this is. — Frankie Manning
What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world. — General Robert E. Lee
You are what you want to become. Why search anymore? You are a wonderful manifestation. The whole universe has come together to make your existence possible. There is nothing that is not you. The kingdom of God, the Pure Land, nirvana, happiness, and liberation are all you. — Nhat Hanh
What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world. — Robert E. Lee
Happiness is not determined by what's happening around you, but rather what's happening inside you. Most people depend on others to gain happiness, but the truth is, it always comes from within. — John Spence
How dark it is before the dawn! In reality that was the beginning of my last debauch. I was soon to be catapulted into what I like to call the fourth dimension of existence. I was to know happiness, peace, and usefulness, in a way of life that is incredibly more wonderful as time passes. — Bill W.
Your life is a gift from the Creator. Your gift back to the Creator is what you do with your life. — Billy Mills
To the barefoot man, happiness is a pair of shoes. To the man with old shoes, it's a pair of new shoes. To the man with new shoes, it's stylish shoes. And of course, the fellow with no feet would be happy to be barefoot. Measure your life by what you have not by what you don't. — Michael Josephson
When You Find Happiness Quotes
When you find yourself in a position to help someone, be happy because Allah is answering that person’s prayer through you. — Nouman Ali Khan
Sometimes you have to let everything go - purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything - whatever is bringing you down - get rid of it. Because you will find that when you are free, your true creativity, your true self comes out. — Tina Turner
The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well, and when you find it put your whole soul into it-every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have. — John D. Rockefeller III
True happiness occurs only when you find the problems you enjoy having and enjoy solving. — Mark Manson
Once you're truly happy with yourself alone, that's when you are safe to find the right person to spend the rest of your life with. — Tyler Perry
Life is like any other contact sport. You may encounter hardships of one sort or another. Wise people find happiness not in the absence of such hardships, but in their ability to understand them when they occur. — Sydney Banks
The hardest situation to stay happy in, I think, is when you're trying to find love, and yourself at the same time. It just doesn't seem to fit well. — Sophia Bush
Look to the present. The great disease of 'I will be happy when ...' is sweeping the world. You know the symptoms. You start thinking: I'll be happy when I get that ... BMW ... promotion ... status ... money. The only way to cure the disease is to find happiness and meaning now. — Marshall Goldsmith
Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. — Groucho Marx
I’m beginning to think that you don’t find happiness from living your life looking ahead or back… that you find it when you look around. — Taylor Swift
Happy And Contented Quotes
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
Creating content to make people smile and laugh, that's what makes me happy. — Logan Paul
Peace is happiness at rest and what you want most of the time, but you can also convert peace to happiness any time. — Naval Ravikant
The fundamental delusion — there is something out there that will make me happy and fulfilled forever. — Naval Ravikant
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
People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained. — Jerome K. Jerome
This fetishization of wanting more, are empty promises of happiness and fulfillment that never seem to come to fruition. — Paul Jarvis
Success is liking yourself and what you do because if you like yourself, you are happy with who you are and how you live and what you do. — Ryan Higa
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
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
Happy And Satisfied Quotes
We have to work at decolonizing our mentality and achieving happiness within the limits of sacrifice we should be willing to make. We have to recondition our people to accept themselves as they are, to not be ashamed of their real situation, to be satisfied with it, to glory in it, even — Thomas Sankara
If happiness were a cake recipe, and ingredients included having food, shelter, healthcare, education, satisfying work, a good life partner, the most important ingredient would be where you live. — Dan Buettner
When you fall in love with the process rather than the product, you don’t have to wait to give yourself permission to be happy. You can be satisfied anytime your system is running. And a system can be successful in many different forms, not just the one you first envision. — James Clear
Service to a just cause rewards the worker with more real happiness and satisfaction than any other venture of life. — Carrie Chapman Catt
Our expectation that others will buy into our fake image is never satisfied – and we feel unhappy. — Mo Gawdat
Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations. — Tom Brady
You must never actually cheat the customer, even if you can. You must make her happy and satisfied, so she will come back. — Alexander Turney Stewart
Yesterday, I was sad, tomorrow i may be sad again, but today i know that i am happy. I want to live on and on, delighting like a pagan in all that is physical; and i know that this one lifetime, however long, cannot satisfy my heart. — Ruskin Bond
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
The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live. — Bertrand Russell
Happiness And Contentment Quotes
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
I don’t think we set and achieve goals in an effort to become happy. We do it because we are happy and want to expand our happiness. — Dan Sullivan
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
Being happy and fulfilled is probably one of the most attractive traits you can offer a partner. — Amir Levine
Anyone's life truly lived consists of work, sunshine, exercise, soap, plenty of fresh air, and a happy contented spirit. — Lillie Langtry
I was told I would never make it because I'm too short. Well, I'm still too short, but I've got 10 All-Star games, two World Series championships, and I'm a very happy and contented guy. It doesn't matter what your height is, it's what's in your heart. — Kirby Puckett
Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things; and I firmly believe it requires but a little philosophy to make a man happy in whatever state he is. — Daniel Boone
There is something special about a quiet untouched forest that just pulls you into the moment. Something that no parks will ever be able to achieve. Isn't that what we're all searching for in life? To just be happy and content in the moment, to just be there in the "now"? — Jon Krakauer
Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power. — Seneca
Be happy, and a reason will come along. — Robert Breault
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself. — Og Mandino
Do not be content with the old anointing. It is essential to a more holy and happy life...that you seek to be anointed with new oil. Do not be satisfied with past experiences. [...] Seek to have a new revelation of Christ to your soul. Seek the renewed application of His precious blood to your conscience. Oh, seek the fresh oil! — Octavius Winslow
Material things are external and have no bearing on the soul. You can only drive one car and occupy one room at a time. But if you seek happiness within your own being, in control over your own life-force, mind, and purpose, nothing else matters. You can be happy unconditionally. That’s the kind of happiness I want to give to the people I love because it comes from within. It’s already there. — Wim Hof
Finding happiness is like finding yourself. You don't find happiness, you make happiness. You choose happiness. Self-actualization is a process of discovering who you are, who you want to be and paving the way to happiness by doing what brings you the most meaning and contentment to your life over the long run. — David Leonhardt
Rather than ignore those who choose to publish their opinions without actually talking to me, I am happy to dispel any rumors or misconceptions and am quite proud to say that I am a very content gay man living my life to the fullest and feel most fortunate to be working with wonderful people in the business I love. — Neil Patrick Harris
For human beings, simply put, the default state is happiness. If you don’t believe me, spend a little time with a human fresh from the factory, an infant or toddler. Obviously, there’s a lot of crying and fussing associated with the start-up phase of little humans, but the fact is, as long as their most basic needs are met — no immediate hunger, no immediate fear, no scary isolation, no physical pain or enduring sleeplessness — they live in the moment, perfectly happy. — Mo Gawdat
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. — Leo Tolstoy
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