Quotes about Contentment
Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything.
- Victor Hugo
Happiness rarely keeps company with an empty stomach.
- Helen Keller
The fountain of contentment must spring up in the mind.
- Samuel Johnson
Happiness is a decision I must make.
- Marianne Williamson
I think happiness is a goal all of us can agree on. Let's face it - we all would like to be happy.
- Joyce Meyer
Thou shalt ever joy at eventide if thou spend the day fruitfully.
- Thomas a Kempis
Happiness is the ultimate goal. It is the goal of all other goals.
- Deepak Chopra
What is happiness and unhappiness? It depends so little on the circumstances; it depends really only on what happens inside a person. I am grateful for every day and that makes me happy.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The key to happiness is not to get more, but to enjoy what we have and to fill the empty frame of our lives instead of enlarging it.
- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Happiness requires that we give up a worldly orientation-not worldly things, but a worldly attachment to things. We have to surrender all outcomes. We have to live here but appreciate the joke.
- Marianne Williamson
Peace and happiness are what you covet, but these are only to be obtained by labor.
- Thomas a Kempis
If you think there's something you need in order to be happy, then you believe in lack. Then believing you lack, you will create more lack.
- Marianne Williamson