Anna Seward Quotes

Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough.

I'm comfortable with the life I have.

I'm just happy. I'm just me right now.

If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.

I like my life. It's good.

There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

I realize everybody wants what they don't have. But at the end of the day, what you have inside is much more beautiful than what's on the outside!

There's some benefit to being happy in your life. Of looking around and saying, 'This is mine.'

It's better to be happy than to be well-dressed.

You can be happy where you are.

Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.

Stuff can't make you happy.

I'm a simple kind of guy, so I just envision myself being happy.

If you are not happy here and now, you never will be.

Contentment does not come from achievement.

Success does not mean happiness. Check out any celebrity magazine to look for examples to disabuse you of thinking that being beautiful, successful or rich will make you happy.

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.

I would not change my blest estate for all the world calls good or great.

Happiness doesn't depend on how much you have to enjoy, but how much you enjoy what you have.

Once one feels content about what one has, then humiliation does not arise. If one could never feel content, one would never even get what one wished to have.

I'm sounding like Oprah, but if you're not practicing contentment where you are now, you're not getting contentment when you get what you want.

Sometimes I think we live in a world where, even when things are good, people always feel unsatisfied with wherever they are, so I think first I just want to enjoy being happy where I am now and not let my ambition take away from being in the moment.

We need to stop thinking the grass is greener on the other side and be happy with the love we have.

I like my life just the way it is. And it's great.

I think perfect happiness has everything to do with learning to be content with what I have.