Quotes about Contentment

Happiness isn't a destination, it's a mode of travel. Don't worry be happy.

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.

No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.

Do not be troubled because you have not great virtues. God made a million spears of grass where He made one tree. The earth is fringed and carpeted, not with forests, but with grasses. Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero or a saint.

Entertainment is the devil's substitute for joy. The more joy you have in the Lord the less entertainment you need.

That which you are looking for, you're living with.

Twopence a week, and jam every other day.

We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?

My greatest beauty secret is being happy with myself. I don't use special creams or treatments - I'll use a little bit of everything. It's a mistake to think you are what you put on yourself. I believe that a lot of how you look is to do with how you feel about yourself and your life. Happiness is the greatest beauty secret.

The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in 'renouncing' one's own self, by which I mean making up one's mind to admit that there is no importance whatever in being 'happy' or 'unhappy' in the usual meaning of the words.