Personal Contentment Quotes

Having everything is just an expression of complete inner freedom.

At my age, and in my circumstances, what sinister object, or personal emolument had I to seek after, in this life? The growing infirmities of age and the increasing love of retirement, daily confirm my decided predilection for domestic life: and the great Searcher of human hearts is my witness, that I have no wish, which aspires beyond the humble and happy lot of living and dying a private citizen on my own farm.

Fame and fortune does not mean anything if you don't have a happy home.

Nothing outside of ourselves will ever make us happy, because happiness is an inside-out experience.

But happiness ... happiness grows at our own firesides," she said. "It is not to be picked in strangers' gardens." ~ The House at Riverton

I’ve never thought much about whether I was happy or if I had fun as a child. I was a so-so girl who lived with a so-so family in a so-so village. I didn’t know that there might be another way to live, and I didn’t worry about it either.

The thing is, my appearance – that’s never been my moneymaker. I’m fine being small. I’m fine being all the things I am. And I’m happy I’m not supposed to be on the 50 Most Beautiful list all the time, because that would be super f**king stressful.

You don't find happiness, you make happiness.

Your unhappiness is not due to your want of a fortune or high position or fame or sufficient vitamins. It is due not to a want of something outside of you, but to a want of something inside you. You were made for perfect happiness. No wonder everything short of God disappoints you.

Happiness does not consist in things themselves but in the relish we have of them; and a man has attained it when he enjoys what he loves and desires himself, and not what other people think lovely and desirable.

Make yourself as happy as possible, and try to make those happy whose lives come in touch with yours. But to attempt to right the wrongs and cease the sufferings of the world in general is a waste of effort.

I wanna be your happiness. I wanna be your common sense pain.

No man is happy who does not think himself so.

If you don't like what you're doing, it's unlikely anyone else will either, so be sure you are happy with your own work first.

Happy people make people happy, but I can’t make someone be happy, and no one else can make me happy.

The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school.

Be liked and you will never want.

I think that once you've had a few No. 1s in your career that you've kind of proven yourself, and I don't feel the need to prove anything anymore.

Understand that there is no relationship between your inner happiness and your inner joy and the outer things that you experience and behold in the world, that it all begins with you, the world is a mirror to your own Self, when you can look at things and feel joy not in the things but in yourself.

You must feel love within, before you can share it.

I've lived so deep under masks, my interior was built to satisfy me alone - I have lived almost 60 years alone, mentally, and quite content to have it so.

I feel alone, free, and detached from everything in the world, and I'm happy.

The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.

Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind, than on the externals in the world.

Happiness has little to do with what is going on around you, and a lot to do with what is going on inside you.