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When you are happy with what you have, you are the happiest. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Happiness is the twin sister of optimism and the twin brother of contentment. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Happiness is achieving your goals. Contentment is not having any. — Chloe Thurlow

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

The road to happiness starts with a deep breath and an awareness of the many blessings tied to that single breath. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Who realises all the happiness he desires? Everything is in the hands of God. Therefore one should learn contentment. — Chanakya

True art must be evidence of happiness, contentment and purity of its authors. — Mahatma Gandhi

Contentment is the greatest joy. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Sharing your life with someone will have much more meaning coming from a place of independence rather than co-dependence. — Gary Hopkins

Happiness is wanting what you have. — Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

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

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. — John Newton

I have received and I want to give. This is the path to happiness and contentment. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Contentment is the foundation of true Happiness. The Happiness that comes from fulfilling desires can never be permanent.-RVM — R.v.m.

Happiness is found within Oneself. It can't be accessed through People or Things. — Joan Ambu

Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements. — Christian Nestell Bovee

Some things are hard to imagine. Can you conceive of excessive contentment, for example? Or an over pleasant evening? Too much happiness? — Alan Moore

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

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

The beauty of the soul enfold in spiritual-life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them. — John Stuart Mill

Happiness isn't a thing. You can't go out and get it like a cup of tea. It's the way you feel about things. — Diana Wynne Jones

Life is your greatest asset. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Thankfulness is the life of contentment. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

No one's happy here, you know that. But I am content, and maybe that's enough for me. — Melissa De La Cruz

Imagination doesn't always make you long for what you cannot have, but rather thrive in what you do not have. — Criss Jami

Contentment and happiness are blessings that are given only to those who follow the straight path — Syeikh Aidh Al Qarni

Be like the flower, content with its nature. — Seth D.

Don't confuse contentment with happiness... — Chris Wooding

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

I only seem negative to the fortunate. That's because I show the less fortunate that they aren't less fortunate after all. — Criss Jami

It was one of those happy days that God grants us sometimes on earth to give us an idea of the bliss of heaven. — Johann David Wyss

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

Contentment and happiness! Do everything happily. Walk,
talk, sit happily; even if you complain against somebody,
do it happily. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

When the symphony of life fills your heart, the chorus of contentment joins in. — Tom Althouse

True happiness lies within you. — Og Mandino

Courage uncovers strength, grace reveals beauty, vulnerability expresses humility, inner peace reflects contentment — Millen Livis

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. — Dale Carnegie

True wealth is contentment, and happiness is forgetting to worry how you are and how much you have. — Robert Thurman

There's a Hasidic proverb: 'While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.'" Jacob — Jonathan Safran Foer

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

I was especially perceptive to all things beautiful that morning - raspberries in blue china bowls were enough to make the heart sing. — Irene Hunt

Being content with what you have already is an art form that leads to a peace that can't be replaced by anything else. — Elizabeth Gilbert

The fountain of contentment must spring up in the mind. — Samuel Johnson

There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment. — Swami Sivananda

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

Contentment is joy of life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Live by your own sacred standard. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Joy of life is to be content. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Happy is still Happy, with or without the Ever After. — Mandy Hale

The top of the band would be happiness, contentment and peace of mind. — Frederick Lenz

If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness. — Leon Kass

To seek contentment is to release the novelty that lies within monotony — Ilyas Kassam

It doesn't matter if you're rich or poor-the determining factor of success and happiness is contentment. — Sakyong Mipham

Marriage is not essential to the contentment, the dignity, or the happiness of woman. — Catharine Maria Sedgwick

If you are not content today, there is nothing you can buy tomorrow to change that. — Joshua Becker

Contentment is the only one substitute for happiness. — Kishore Bansal

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

Perhaps it's because I appreciate all I have so much that I don't worry about what I haven't got. — Leo Tolstoy

Be grateful for what you have and you will always have enough. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Lord, make me now
As happy as the field.
With flowers enriched ... — Eileen A. Soper

The happier person is one, that acknowledges and accepts life won't get any better than this. — Anthony Liccione

Contentment with our lot is an element of happiness. — Aesop

You know that the pursuit of worldly things does not bring contentment. Find satisfaction in becoming a worker among the Lord's workers — Binye Vincent

Imagined happiness is still happiness. — Richelle E. Goodrich

There's such a thing as too much happiness and sadness. What I'm after is contentment. — Ray Charles

Happiness, or contentment, comes from where we look and what we believe, not from what we have. — Lydia Brownback

Contentment is knowing you're right. Happiness is knowing someone else is wrong. — Bill Bailey

Only when night comes do I feel, if not happiness, at least some kind of repose which I experience as contentment — Fernando Pessoa

To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problem of contentment. — George Edward Woodberry

Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness. — Pearl S. Buck

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

And where was happiness if it sprung not from the soil? Where contentment if it dwelt not near to Nature? — Ellen Glasgow

To be happy without your wants is greatest contentment. — Lailah Gifty Akita

But what now if all the peace, the comfort, the contentment were to come to a horrible end? — Franz Kafka

The secret of contentment is never to allow yourself to want anything which reason tells you you haven't a chance of getting. — P.D. James

Ultimately, contentment is more a shift in attitude than a change in circumstances. — Linda Dillow

Achieving one's goal is the key to one's happiness and contentment. — Joey Lawsin

Contentment is the sibling of happiness;
joy is the fountain of both. — Matshona Dhliwayo

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. — Haruki Murakami

People will ask you the question 'how is life treating you?' But my question is 'how are you treating life?' On that your happiness rests — Rasheed Ogunlaru

When we do what is right, we have contentment, peace and happiness. — Beverly LaHaye

Whoever is content,shall be cheerful. — Lailah Gifty Akita

We're all golden sunflowers inside. — Allen Ginsberg

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

Pleasures that we seek are not Happiness at its peak ... for it is Contentment that gives True fulfillment.-RVM — R.v.m.

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

Happy are those who evolve from within. — Amit Abraham

A sense of contentment is a key factor for attaining happiness — Dalai Lama

God says happiness is contentment with what you already have, with what He provides you, with what you can share. — Craig Groeschel

True happiness is the contentment of soul, and the joy of inner heart. — Flora D.

Having happy kids is far more important than anything they'll ever accomplish. Without happiness success and contentment is always hard to reach. — Ron Baratono

When you have enough, there is no need for excessiveness. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Contentment is indispensable joy. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Happiness is a great contentment. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Better to be happy with the cod fish in your plate now, than to linger for the taste of a tuna that is still swimming in the sea. — Dennis E. Adonis

Happiness comes out of contentment, and contentment always comes out of service. — Harbhajan Singh