Henry David Thoreau Quotes

Contentment produces, in some measure, all those effects which the alchemist usually ascribes to what he calls the philosopher's stone; and if it does not bring riches, it does the same thing by banishing the desire for them.

I have searched frantically for contentment for so many years in so many ways, and all the acquisitions and accomplishments- they run you down in the end.

If by happiness you mean instead an ordinary contentment, then yes - I'm fairly contented. Not satisfied - contented.

Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?

I have everything in the world that is necessary to happiness--good faith, good friends, and all the work I can possibly do.

You find happiness where you find it.

That should be the measure of success for everyone. It's not money, it's not fame, it's not celebrity; my index of success is happiness.

I am happier now than I have ever been.

I feel that I've done what I wanted to do, and that makes me feel fairly content.

I hate to sound blase about it, but literary status is not important to me. Being happy is important to me.

I'm quite happy with the way my life is.

I like my life just the way it is. And it's great.

At the end of the day, when you go to bed, you should be content and happy.

Of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.

Money doesn't buy happiness. It buys great hookers - but not happiness.

Money buys you nice things but it doesn't make you happy.

Do you reckon Tom Sawyer was satisfied after all them adventures?

The definition of success is getting many of the things money can buy and all the things money can't buy.

Is not where I live happily ever after, or who with. It's the fact that I live happily ever after.

A sense of contentment is a key factor for attaining happiness

Success is not just money in the bank but a contented heart and peace of mind.

Happiness is not a sign that we are right with God; happiness is a sign of satisfaction, that is all, and the majority of us can be satisfied on too low a level.

What good is money if it can't buy happiness?

Success doesn't necessarily mean happiness.

There are things money can't buy and hard work can't win. One of them is happiness.