Being Content Quotes

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.

John Lennon

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Marcus Aurelius

Inspirational, Life, Positive

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Nobody got anywhere in this world by simply being content.

Louis L'Amour

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"Bendigo Shafter (Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures): A Novel".

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Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Bernard Meltzer

Happiness, Success, Inner Peace

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We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Friedrich Koenig

Love, Life, Happiness

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Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

Laozi

Life, Happiness, Spiritual

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

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

Happiness, Littles

Marguerite Countess of Blessington, Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.) (1839). “Desultory Thoughts and Reflections”, p.13

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When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down happy.

John Lennon

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters.

Audrey Hepburn

Life, Happiness, Happy

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Success is not the key to happiness, happiness is the key to success.

Herman Cain

Inspirational, Happiness, Inspiring

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When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.

John Lennon

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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If you believe in what you're doing, you'll be successful.

Connie Sellecca

Happiness, Success, Happy

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It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

Dale Carnegie

Life, Motivational, Positive

Dale Carnegie (2010). “How To Win Friends and Influence People”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius

Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Albert Schweitzer

Happiness, Success, Happy

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Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

Maya Angelou

Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

Twitter post from Sep 28, 2016

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Happiness consists not in having much, but in wanting no more than you have.

Lydia M. Child

Happiness

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Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Albert Schweitzer

Love, Inspirational, Motivational

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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

Bertrand Russell

Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.15, Lulu Press, Inc

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When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Happiness, Happy, Men

Niccolo Machiavelli (2015). “The Prince”, p.80, Xist Publishing

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A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.

Leo Tolstoy

Inspirational, Happiness, Country

Leo Tolstoy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy (Illustrated)”, p.390, Delphi Classics

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What are you doing for others?

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Kings, Helping Others, Volunteer

Jim Haskins, James Haskins, Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1992). “I have a dream: the life and words of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Millbrook Pr

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Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

Laozi

Relationship, Respect, Being Yourself

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