Top 1200 Happy And Contented Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

The mouth of a perfectly contented man is filled with beer. -Egyptian proverb, c. 2200 BCE

The challenge is to resist circumstances. Any idiot can be happy in a happy place, but moral courage is required to be happy in a hellhole.

I'm determined to be contented, and having plenty of money from working makes it easier for me.

There are a great many people in our society who are happy, but since they don't know they're happy, they're not happy.

Happy, happy, happy for all that God hath done, Glad of all the little leaves dancing in the sun.

No one is qualified to converse in public except those contented to do without such conversation.

Happy! Who is happy? Was there not a serpent in Paradise itself? And if Eve had been perfectly happy beforehand, would she have listened to the tempter?

We only see in a lifetime a dozen faces marked with the peace of a contented spirit.

I'm a very contented, peaceful man. I made mistakes, yes, but I accepted them, and, I hope, graciously.

The truly miserable have a timbre in their voices strong enough to erase smiles from the faces and souls of the contented.

I was happy to be drafted. I was happy to be playing professional baseball. And I was happy to be in the big leagues.

I live in fear of being a contented passenger. I'd rather get parts I can't play.

You don't have to take drugs to be happy. You don't have to drink to be happy. You don't have to have people around you who love you to be happy. You don't need anything except the clarity of your own mind.

So often, we blame other people when, really, the problem is right down in here. I'm not happy. I don't know what's wrong. If I just had another job, I could be happy. If I just get married, I would be happy. Well if I just wasn't married, I would be happy. Well, if I just had some kids, I'll be happy. I'll be happy when these kids finally grow up and get out of here. If I had a bigger house, I would be happy. Well, I got a big house. Now if I just had a maid to clean, I'd be happy. Well, now if I just had a maid I could get along with better, I'd be happy.

If you're a victim, you're not happy. You can't be happy. It's impossible to be happy. It's even difficult to be content.

I try to be happy, but I'm never happy. I don't believe in happiness. I was happy yesterday, but today and tomorrow is a different story.

The happiest and most contented people are those who each day perform to make the best of their abilities.

Human sympathy has its limits, and we were contented to let all their tragic arguments fade with the city lights behind.

Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.

Don't worry about your father. He's a perfectly contented, self-sufficient zombie.

A Bradypus or Sloth am I, / I live a life of ease, / Contented not to do or die / But idle as I please.

You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Love is a capricious creature which desires everything and can be contented with almost nothing.

There are no happy endings, just happy days, happy moments. The only real ending is death, and trust me, no one dies happy. And the price of not dying is that things change all the time, and the only thing you can count on is that there's not a thing you can do about it.

There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.

Let me beg you, not to rest contented with the commonplace religion that is now so prevalent.

When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your lot?

It is impossible for a man to be made happy by putting him in a happy place, unless he be first in a happy state.

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

For me, I would rather read a good book, from a contented author. I don't really care what it takes to produce that.

In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle.

Success for me is to feel happy - 80 percent of the time. That's been my goal in life. I think that comes from my father. He's a very optimistic, happy person. I'm not quite sure if I'll ever feel this, but I want to know how to be happy. I'm happy when I'm at work. I'm happy when I'm with my family or my dog. But there's always that feeling of, I'm not satisfied. I have that thing in my stomach where I just need to keep striving for things. In my mind, I want the fairy tale.

The contented have time to worry about trivialities; often to the extent that they never achieve anything worthwhile.

The ultimate goal of all goals is to be happy. If you want to be happy make someone else happy.

You want to be happy; of course, that isn't how you get to be happy; because if you want to be happy, you are going to be sitting around being unhappy because you're not happy.

Break not the rose; its fragrance and beauty are surely sufficient, resting contented with these, never a thorn shall you feel.

No, Freedom has a thousand charms to show That slaves, howe'er contented, never know.

I love to be happy. I think you are happy if you make somebody else happy around you.

I'm happy wherever I go, whatever I do. I'm happy in Iowa, I'm happy here in California.

Don't think you're going to be happy when you get something. You have to be happy on your way to happy.

My only job is to be happy. So for everybody that cares about me and is not trying to be all up in a celebrity's business, just know that I'm happy. My son is happy. We enjoy our lives.

I could have an office all to myself but since my collaborators don’t have one, then I too am contented to have a desk in a shared room.

You traverse the world in search of happiness which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

When you feel happy, really happy, it somehow seems that you've always been happy and that you'll always be happy. The same is often true when you feel sad, or lonely, or depressed, or broke, or sick, or scared. Something, perhaps, to remember.

When you are happy you are ordinary, because to be happy is just to be natural. To be miserable is to become extraordinary. Nothing is special in being happy - trees are happy, birds are happy, animals are happy, children are happy. What is special in that? It is just the usual thing in existence. Existence is made of the stuff called happiness. Just look! - can't you see these trees?...so happy. Can't you see the birds singing?...so happily. Happiness has nothing special in it. Happiness is a very ordinary thing.

But my friends are happy for me. The people who know me are happy. My mom is happy. My family is happy.

I'm happy if everybody else is. I'm a big brother, the oldest. If you're happy and I'm not, I'm cool with that. If I'm happy and you're not, I'm sad.

I'm in a contented, loving relationship, but that doesn't mean I'm not struggling with other things that are going on around me in the world.

I can at once become happy anywhere, for he is happy who has found himself a happy lot. In a word, happiness lies all in the functions of reason, in warrantable desires and virtuous practice.

Let your mind, happily contented with the present, care not what the morrow will bring with it.

One of the ways to be happy, to be truly happy, is to contribute to a cause that is greater than yourself. And, through Harvard-based research, we can see that happy people live longer.

I'm happy in Madrid, my kids are happy and my wife is happy, so everything's good. If anyone knows about contracts they take a while to sort out.

I have now reached the happy age of 23. No, happy is not quite the right word. At this particular moment I am certainly not happy.

You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.

Just be happy, and if you can't be happy, do things that make you happy. Or do nothing with the people that make you happy.

You cannot make women contented with cooking and cleaning and you need not try.

To possess is past the instant; we achieve the joy, immortality contented, were anomaly.

Look, I'm going to find a way to be happy, and I'd really love to be happy with you, but if I can't be happy with you, then I'll find a way to be happy without you.

Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.