Contentment Quotes

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

Oh, don't let's ask for the moon. We've already got the stars.
Bette Davis

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

The only routine with me is no routine at all.

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
Ansel Adams

As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.

We drink one another's health and spoil our own.
Jerome K. Jerome

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
William Faulkner

Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.
Aesop

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
B. C. Forbes

I don't need a man. But I'm happier with one. I like to have someone I can touch and squeeze and kiss. But I don't fold up and die if I don't have a man around.
Cher

A contented mind is the best source for trouble.
Titus

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.
Ezra Pound

The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.
Henry A. Kissinger

Life is full of risks anyway, why not take them?
Lindsay Lohan

How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.
Bram Stoker

The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.
Deepak Chopra

I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything. The sun came up like gold through the trees, and I felt like I was in heaven.
Harriet Tubman

If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.
Edith Wharton

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.

Right now I'm just delighted to be alive and to have had a nice long bath.
Richard Branson

Our country may be likened to a new house. We lack many things, but we possess the most precious of all -- liberty!
James Monroe

Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
Laurie Anderson

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
Tacitus

The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you.
Bette Midler

I have stepped off the relationship scene to come to terms with myself. I have spent most of my adult life being 'someone's girlfriend', and now I am happy being single.
Penelope Cruz

It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.
Henry Van Dyke

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.
Julius Caesar

When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.
Bob Hope

I'd studied dance in Chicago every summer end taught it all winter, and I was well-rounded. I wasn't worried about getting a job on Broadway. In fact, I got one the first week.
Gene Kelly

Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.
Daphne du Maurier

Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.
Samuel Adams

It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
George Sand

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.
George Sand

My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!
Edna St. Vincent Millay

In all my study of history, I have never found a time or place I would rather have lived than now.
Orson Scott Card

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
J. R. R. Tolkien