William Congreve Quotes

Supreme happiness consists in self-content; that we may gain this self-content, we are placed upon this earth and endowed with freedom.

The most certain mode of making people content with us is to make them content with themselves.

But self-satisfaction, if as buoyant as gas, has an ugly trick of collapsing when full blown, and facts are stony things that refuse to melt away in the sunshine of a smile.

What a fool I would have been to let self-respect interfere with my happiness!

Happiness, I think, has to come in the beginning, truly, from feeling a sense of well-being within yourself. To me it's that incredible sense of belonging and peace within your own self and heart that really is joy.

Supreme happiness consists in self-content.

Nothing can be so bad as to be displeased with one's self.

If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace.

I think I'm someone who is pretty happy with themselves and pretty content where they are in life. I want to share my happiness and hopefully enrich people's lives that I come into contact with.

I'm just content with myself, happy with myself.

Few things are needful to make the wise man happy, but nothing satisfies the fool; - and this is the reason why so many of mankind are miserable.

You can't please everyone so you gotta please yourself.

I'm a simple kind of guy, so I just envision myself being happy.

At the end of the day, if you are not happy, no one can make you happy.

As long as I'm happy, I don't care about accolades or anything else.

Self-nurturance, or learning to bask in bliss, is an acquired art form.

If you don't have self love you can never find it outside of yourself.

For me, success is inner peace. That's a good day for me.

Few things are needed to make a wise man happy; nothing can make a fool content; that is why most men are miserable.

There is something about the human condition. I don't think dogs are like "If only I was a poodle instead of a golden retriever, I'd be totally happy." Dogs are happy with who they are.

Few things are necessary to make the wise man happy while no amount of material wealth would satisfy a fool. I am not a fool.

Confidence equals contentment with self; contentment is knowing you have all you need for the present circumstances.

I'm proud of myself. I'm a relieved, happy girl.

the real mission you have in life is to make yourself happy, and in order to be happy, you have to look at what you believe, the way you judge yourself, the way you victimize yourself

It's not the job of this town to make me feel happy. It's not this town´s fault that I don't feel I fit in. It doesn't matter where you are in the world, because it's about where you are in your head. It's about the other world I inhabit. The world of dreams, hope, imagination, and memories. I'm happy up here, and because of that I'm happy up there too