Quotes about Contentment

The soul's smile is better than the heart's grin.

People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life. All that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves—such an ethical basis I call more proper for a herd of swine.

A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell on the future.

It is at last beginning to be realized that great wealth is not necessary for a happy and satisfactory life.

Everybody strains after happiness, and the result is that nobody's happy.

When we feel ourselves to be sole heirs of the universe, when the sea flows in our veins...and the stars are our jewels, when all things are perceived as infinite and holy, what motive can we have for covetousness or self-assertion, for the pursuit of power or the drearier forms of pleasure?

everybody happy and no one ever sad or angry, and every one belonging to every one else...

He had allowed the advertisers to multiply his wants; he had learned to equate happiness with possessions, and prosperity with money to spend in a shop.

That is the secret of happiness and virtue - liking what you've got to do.

The world's stable now. People are happy; they get what they want, and they never want what they can't get. They're well off; they're safe; ignorant of passion and old age; they're plagued with no mothers or fathers; they've got no wives, or children, or lovers to feel strongly about; they're so conditioned that they practically can't help behaving as they ought to behave. And if anything should go wrong, there's soma.