“Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.”
Socrates
ContentmentWealth
Happiness Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · HAPPINESS
Happiness Quotes
Read the best happiness quotes on joy, contentment and living well from Aristotle, Epictetus, Tolstoy, Thiruvalluvar, Kabir, the Gita and more. Words to brighten your day.
“He has the most who is most content with the least.”
Diogenes
ContentmentSimple Living
“A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.”
Seneca
AuthenticityStoicism
“The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.”
Seneca
ContentmentDesire
“Happy is he who has all that he desires, provided he desires nothing amiss.”
Saint Augustine
DesireVirtue
“Show simplicity, embrace plainness, reduce selfishness, and have few desires.”
Lao Tzu
Simple LivingWisdom
“Pleasant are friends when need arises; pleasant is contentment with what one has; pleasant is merit at the end of life.”
Buddha
FriendshipContentment
“As rivers flow into the ocean, which is full yet unmoved, so the one into whom all desires flow without disturbance attains peace, not the one who chases desires.”
The Bhagavad Gita
Inner PeaceDesire
“Drive from thy soul desire insatiate; straightway is gained the moveless blissful state.”
Thiruvalluvar
DesireBliss
“Happy thou art not; for what thou hast not, still thou strivest to get, and what thou hast, forget'st.”
William Shakespeare
GratitudeContentment
“He that lives in hope danceth without music.”
George Herbert
HopeJoy
“Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health.”
Joseph Addison
HealthCheerfulness
“Life admits not of delays; when pleasure can be had, it is fit to catch it.”
Samuel Johnson
Seize The DayJoy
“Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.”
Victor Hugo
LaughterJoy
“Happiness, not in another place but this place, not for another hour but this hour.”
Walt Whitman
Present MomentJoy
“A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it.”
George Bernard Shaw
FunnyLife
“When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy.”
Oscar Wilde
GoodnessPhilosophy
“Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation.”
The Bible (Habakkuk 3:18)
JoyFaith
“Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue.”
Aristotle
VirtueSuccess
“Cheerfulness is created for men through moderation of enjoyment and proportionateness of life.”
Democritus
BalanceCheerfulness
“One who is unattached to external pleasures finds happiness in the Self; united with the Divine, he enjoys endless bliss.”
The Bhagavad Gita
Inner JoySpirituality
“Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.”
Epicurus
PleasurePhilosophy
“He who knows that he has enough is rich.”
Lao Tzu
ContentmentWealth
“There is no fire like passion; there is no losing throw like hatred; there is no pain like this body; there is no happiness higher than rest.”
Buddha
PeaceRest
“He who sees equality everywhere, in pleasure and in pain, as he sees it in himself, is considered the highest yogi.”
The Bhagavad Gita
EquanimityCompassion