Quotes about Contentment
Happiness doesn't result from what we get, but from what we give.
- Ben Carson
There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Comparison is the thief of joy.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Being joyful is our natural state of being.
- Deepak Chopra
Happiness is something that comes from our own hearts, not from other people.
- Lynn Austin
Contentment is knowing you're right. Happiness is knowing someone else is wrong.
- Bill Bailey
There is within every soul a thirst for happiness and meaning.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
The most satisfying project you will ever undertake-and a mark of a complete human being-is to discover how to build a sense of happiness that no one can take away from you.
- Deepak Chopra
There is no shame in preferring happiness.
- Albert Camus
There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
- GK Chesterton
A happiness that is sought for ourselves alone can never be found: for a happiness that is diminished by being shared is not big enough to make us happy.
- Thomas Merton