Quotes about Contentment

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.

Happiness is a habit—cultivate it.

Consider the truly happy people you know. I think it is unlikely that you will find that circumstances have made them happy. They have made themselves happy in spite of circumstances.

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

A man married to the right woman will be happy. A man married to the wrong woman will be a philosopher.

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

My idea of absolute happiness is to be in bed on a rainy day, with my blankie, my cat, and my dog.

We have this consolation, that it was the evident dispensation of God which brought us to this country; and still further, that if the world was all before us, where to choose our place of rest, we should not desire to leave Burmah.

We're all, by and large, comparatively speaking, rich people and have perhaps more than one home. And yet the question is, are we really at home anywhere? Are we really at home in any of our homes? Because it seems to me that to be at home somewhere means to be at peace somewhere and I have a feeling at some deep level there can really be no peace for any of us, no real home for any of us, until there is some measure of real peace for everybody until everybody has a home.

When I went into their family, it was the abode of happiness and contentment. The mistress of the house was a model of affection and tenderness. Her fervent piety and watchful uprightness made it impossible to see her without thinking and feeling—that woman is a Christian.

Relinquish the desire for children and wealth and live the life of 'Vanaprastha,' that is, one retired from the household cares.