True Contentment Quotes

I'd learned how much happiness money can bring you. Very little.

Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.

Some people appear to be happy, but they simply don't give the matter much thought. Others make plans: I'm going to have a husband, a home, two children, a house in the country. As long as they're busy doing that, they're like bulls looking for the bullfighter: they react instinctively, they blunder on, with no idea where the target is. They get their car, sometimes they even get a Ferrari, and they think that's the meaning of life, and they never question it. Yet their eyes betray the sadness that even they don't know they carry in their soul. Are you happy?

All the fame and fortune, glory and prestige, can't make me happy if it goes against what I believe.

When you're at peace, there's no counterfeit freedom.

So if loss of what gives happiness causes you distress when it fades, you can now understand that such happiness is worthless. It is said, those who lose themselves in their desire for things also lose their innate nature by being vulgar.

Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery.

The earnestness of life is the only passport to satisfaction of life.

We find that the more a cultivated reason devotes itself to the aim of enjoying life and happiness, the further does man get away from true contentment.

We take less pains to be happy, than to appear so.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Nothing is more important than reconnecting with your bliss. Nothing is as rich. Nothing is more real.

Base your happiness on being real, not on illusions and expectations.

True refuge is that which allows us to be at home, at peace, to discover true happiness. The only thing that can give us true refuge is the awareness and love that is intrinsic to who we are. Ultimately, it's our own true nature.

Nothing out there will ever satisfy you except temporarily and superficially, but you may need to experience many disappointments before you realize that truth

The happiness which brings enduring worth to life is not the superficial happiness that is dependent on circumstances. It is the happiness and contentment that fills the soul even in the midst of the most distressing of circumstances and most bitter environment.

That is truth. In that truth, there is real happiness. And there is nothing that could disturb that happiness.

In spite of the extent to which Solomon went to find happiness, because he left God out of the picture, nothing satisfied. It never will. Satisfaction in life will never occur until there is a meaningful connection with the living Lord above the sun.

I think we all mistake certain things for happiness. I think we mistake comfort for happiness and we mistake pleasure for happiness, and entertainment for happiness, when really these are just things we use as proxies for our happiness. We use them to cheer us up or try and achieve brief happiness, when really happiness is something much more profound and long lasting and exists within us.

though pleasure may be purchasable, happiness cannot be bought for a price.