Quotes about Contentment
We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it is absent, we do everything to possess it.
- Epicurus
Happiness is a vine that takes root and grows within the heart, never outside it.
- Khalil Gibran
There is no greater misery than false joys.
- Bernard of Clairvaux
Find joy in the ordinary.
- Max Lucado
You can get everything money will buy without a lick of character, but you can't get any of the things money won't buy: happiness, joy, peace of mind, winning relationships, etc., without character.
- Zig Ziglar
Happiness is not a sign that we are right with God; happiness is a sign of satisfaction, that is all, and the majority of us can be satisfied on too low a level.
- Oswald Chambers
Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
- Jonathan Edwards
You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.
- John Mayer
Happiness does not depend on outward circumstances, but on the state of the heart.
- JC Ryle
If anyone would tell you the shortest, surest way to all happiness and all perfection, he must tell you to make a rule to yourself to thank and praise God for everything that happens to you.
- William Law
Your happiness depends on you alone.
- Aristotle
The test of happiness is gratitude.
- GK Chesterton