Happy And Contented Quotes

• People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Business, People, Doe

  Jerome K. Jerome (2014). “Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.165, Diderot Publishing

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• The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.112, Wordsworth Editions

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• It does not matter how other people treat you. That is their lookout. The only real thing is how you treat them. Give love out, but do not worry and expect any in return, and you will be happy and contented.

  Evalyn Walsh McLean

  Kindness, Real, Expectations

  Evalyn Walsh McLean (2015). “Father Struck It Rich”, p.11, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• To be truly happy and contented, you must let go of what it means to be happy or content.

  Confucius

  Happiness, Letting Go, Mean

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• The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.

  Doug Larson

  Happiness, Happy, Laughter

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• The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

  Mark Twain

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.116, Chartwell

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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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  He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• Reduce your wants and lead a happy and contented life. Never hurt the feelings of others and be kind to all. Think of God as soon as you get up and when you go to bed.

  Dharma Mittra

  Hurt, Thinking, Feelings

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• We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Happiness, Inner Peace

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• They say that extroverts are unhappier than introverts and have to compensate for this by constantly proving to themselves how happy and contented and at ease with life they are.

  Paulo Coelho

  Ease, Extroverts, Introvert

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• Anyone's life truly lived consists of work, sunshine, exercise, soap, plenty of fresh air, and a happy contented spirit.

  Lillie Langtry

  Life, Sunshine, Exercise

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• Anyone can live contentedly in circumstances of ease and comfort, health and well-being gratification and felicity; but to remain happy and contented in the face of difficulty, hardship and the onslaught of disease and sickness-this is an indication of nobility.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Comfort, Baha, Hardship

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• Money is a needful and precious thing, and when well used, a noble thing, but I never want you to think it is the first or only prize to strive for. I'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queens on thrones, without self-respect and peace.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Happiness, Money, Queens

  Louisa May Alcott (1993). “Little Women”, p.97, Wordsworth Editions

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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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• I want Thy plan, O God, for my life. May I be happy and contented whether in the homeland or on the foreign field; whether married or alone, in happiness or sorrow, health or sickness, prosperity or adversity -- I want Thy plan, O God, for my life. I want it; oh, I want it.

  Oswald J. Smith

  Adversity, Sorrow, May

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• Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

  William Butler Yeats

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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• The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside

  Anne Frank

  Lonely, Nature, Loneliness

  Anne Frank, General Press (2016). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.107, GENERAL PRESS

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  Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

  George Orwell

  Life, Happiness, Happy

  George Orwell (1946). “Critical Essays”

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• I'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queen's on thrones, without self-respect and peace.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Queens, Men, Self

  Louisa May Alcott (2014). “Little Women”, p.106, Trajectory Inc

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• The rapid growth of industry, the ever increasing population and the imperative need for a more varied, wholesome and nourishing foodstuff makes it all the more necessary to exhaust every means at our command to fill the empty dinner pail, enrich our soils, bring greater wealth and influence to our beautiful South land, which is synonymous to a healthy, happy and contented people.

  George Washington Carver

  Beautiful, Health, Mean

  "George Washington Carver: In His Own Words".

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• The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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  Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Quoted in Francis Carpenter, Six Months at the White House with Abraham Lincoln (1866)

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• I've married a man who owns nine cows," said Jinjur to Ozma, "and now I am happy and contented and willing to lead a quiet life and mind my own business." "Where is your husband?" asked Ozma. "He is in the house, nursing a black eye," replied Jinjur, calmly. "The foolish man would insist upon milking the red cow when I wanted him to milk the white one; but he will know better next time, I am sure.

  L. Frank Baum

  Husband, Eye, Nursing

  L. Frank Baum (2016). “Ozma of Oz: American Literature”, p.105, VM eBooks

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• The Western world, in spite of its advantages of mechanization and industrial efficiency is today in a worse mess than ever before in history. The adoption Western economic theory and practice will not help us in achieving our goal of creating a happy and contented people. We must work our destiny in our own way and present to the world an economic system based on true Islamic concept of equality of manhood and social justice.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Islamic, Destiny, Practice

  Address on occasion of opening of State bank of Pakistan, July 1, 1948.

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