Satisfaction with Life Quotes

Happiness doesn't depend on the actual number of blessings we manage to scratch from life, only our attitude towards them.

If one's life is simple, contentment has to come.

Contentment may be the most powerful Financial Principle. You can give more, avoid debt, and live better.

You have it made when you don't care whether you have it made or not.

To be happy one must be (a) well fed, unhounded by sordid cares, at ease in Zion, (b) full of a comfortable feeling of superiority to the masses of one's fellow men, and (c) delicately and unceasingly amused according to one's taste. It is my contention that, if this definition be accepted, there is no country in the world wherein a man constituted as I am - a man of my peculiar weakness, vanities, appetites, and aversions - can be so happy as he can be in the United States.

Happiness based on reasons is actually another form of misery.

Almost Kien was tempted to believe in happiness, that contemptible life-goal of illiterates. If it came of itself, without being hunted for, if you did not hold it fast by force and treated it with a certain condescension, it was permissible to endure its presence for a few days

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

I’d rather be poor and happy than rich and alone.

Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price.

I wonder if anyone can ever succeed in making their children content.

Whatever anybody says, the most important thing in life is to be happy.

Happiness has not to all the same name: to Youth she is known as the Future; Age knows her as the Dream.

Since when has Finland been a rotten place to live in?

... but any fool knows that you don't need money to get enjoyment out of life.

Happiness is the relief after extreme tension

I don't wanna get rich - just live good.

The only reason why you are unhappy is because you are trying to be happy.

A sense of contentment is a key factor for attaining happiness

A sense of contentment is crucial to being happy. Physical health, material wealth and friends contribute to this, but contentment governs our relations with them all.

There are many things in this world that are an outrage, to be sure, but death at our current life expectancy doesn’t strike me as one of them. Maybe I sound like some Victorian who felt that forty years ought to be enough for any man, but one of the marks of a life well lived has to be reaching a state of finally getting it, of not needing more, and of being able to sign off with something approaching peace of mind.

Contentment is the continuing act of accepting the process of your own life.

I've had happy moments in my life, but I don't think that happiness-- being happy-- is a perpetual state that anyone can be in. Life isn't that way.

Happiness does not consist in things themselves but in the relish we have of them.

People are never free of trying to be content.