Quotes on Being Content

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.

Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.

A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

That her relationship with him was like being content in a house but always sitting by the window and looking out

If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

The signs of the soundness of the servant's love for his Lord are three: absence of self-willing; pleasure in every event which takes place through divine decree; and seeing the perfection of the Beloved in everything and being content with Him in everything through submission to Him in all things.

Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

Being content with what you have already is an art form that leads to a peace that can’t be replaced by anything else.

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.