Top 100 Contentment Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “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.”

— Lao Tzu

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2. “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”

— Maya Angelou

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3. “The more you are grateful for what you have the more you will have to be grateful for.”

— Zig Ziglar

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4. “Don’t let a mad world tell you that success is anything other than a successful present moment.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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5. “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 it.”

— Dale Carnegie

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6. “Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.”

— Ramana Maharshi

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7. “Think of what you have rather than of what you lack. Of the things you have, select the best and then reflect how eagerly you would have sought them if you did not have them.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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8. “True happiness is found in simple, seemingly unremarkable things.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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9. “He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.”

— Epictetus

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10. “You say, ‘If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.’ You make a mistake. If you are not content with what you have, you would not be satisfied if it were doubled.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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11. “We already have everything we need.”

— Pema Chödrön

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12. “Contentment is a wealth that is never exhausted.”

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

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13. “Christian contentment is that sweet, inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, which freely submits to and delights in God’s wise and fatherly disposal in every condition.”

— Jeremiah Burroughs

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14. “Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life.”

— Epictetus

15. “Oh what a happy soul am I although I cannot see, I am resolved that in this world contented I shall be. How many blessings I enjoy that other people don’t. To weep and sigh, because I’m blind? I cannot and I won’t.”

— Fanny Crosby

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16. “There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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17. “The less I needed, the better I felt.”

— Charles Bukowski

18. “Everything I need now is here.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

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19. “If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”

— Leo Tolstoy

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20. “Be content to seem what you really are.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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21. “Enjoy everything. Need nothing.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

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22. “I make myself rich by making my wants few.”

— Henry David Thoreau

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23. “Learn from nature. See how everything gets accomplished and how the miracle of life unfolds without dissatisfaction or unhappiness.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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24. “As soon as you honor the present moment, all unhappiness and struggle dissolve, and life begins to flow with joy and ease. When you act out the present-moment awareness, whatever you do becomes imbued with a sense of quality, care, and love – even the most simple action.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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25. “Things take the time they take. Don’t worry.”

— Mary Oliver

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26. “My greatest skill in life has been to want but little.”

— Henry David Thoreau

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27. “I love my job, and I’m a lucky girl. I thoroughly enjoy going to work.”

— Lara Pulver

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28. “It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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29. “A person whose mind is quiet and satisfied in God is in the pathway to health.”

— Ellen G. White

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30. “Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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31. “Contentment makes poor men rich, Discontent makes rich men poor.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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32. “I am me and I am okay.”

— Virginia Satir

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33. “No pressure. Just relax and watch it happen.”

— Bob Ross

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34. “Enjoy every sandwich.”

— Warren Zevon

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35. “Don’t seek to have events happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do happen, and all will be well with you.”

— Epictetus

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36. “Be happy now, without reason – or you never will be at all.”

— Dan Millman

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37. “And I think to myself what a wonderful world. Oh, yeah...”

— Louis Armstrong

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38. “I release all control to the Universe. I am at peace with myself and with life.”

— Louise Hay

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39. “I don't have much in the way of money or worldly possessions, I'm not beautiful, intelligent or clever, but I'm happy, and I intend to stay that way! I was born happy, I love people, I have a trusting nature, and I'd like everyone else to be happy too. ”

— Anne Frank

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40. “Enjoying life is far superior to being graded on your performance in life.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

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41. “For me, success is inner peace. That’s a good day for me.”

— Denzel Washington

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42. “Acceptance means no complaining, and happiness means no complaining about the things over which you can do nothing.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

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43. “If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

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44. “My mom said there’s a sunrise and a sunset every day and you can choose to be there or not. You can put yourself in the way of beauty.”

— Cheryl Strayed

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45. “Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

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46. “Slow down, simplify and be kind.”

— Naomi Judd

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47. “Contentment with life is not a feeling, but it is a decision we must make.”

— Joyce Meyer

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48. “I relax and enjoy life. I know that whatever I need to know is revealed to me in the perfect time and space sequence.”

— Louise Hay

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49. “Happiness is simply to allow everything to be exactly as it is from moment to moment.”

— Rupert Spira

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50. “With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.”

— Max Ehrmann

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