Quotes on “contentment”

Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.

Happiness can only be achieved by looking inward & learning to enjoy whatever life has and this requires transforming greed into gratitude.

Paradise was always over there, a day’s sail away. But it’s a funny thing, escapism. You can go far and wide and you can keep moving on and on through places and years, but you never escape your own life. I, finally, knew where my life belonged. Home.

In a person's lifetime there may be not more than half a dozen occasions that he can look back to in the certain knowledge that right then, at that moment, there was room for nothing but happiness in his heart.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived.

It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.

The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.