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Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.

The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters.

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.

We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Happiness consists not in having much, but in wanting no more than you have.

You can search the world over, but you won’t find happiness until you realize that happiness
isn’t getting what you want. It’s being content with what you already have.

Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.

Life is so impermanent that it’s not about somebody else or things around me, it’s about knowing you are completely alone in this world and being content inside.

When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down happy.

The signs of the soundness of the servant’s love for his Lord are three: absence of self-willing; pleasure in every event which takes place through divine decree; and seeing the perfection of the Beloved in everything and being content with Him in everything through submission to Him in all things.

we must be as satisfied to be powerless, idle and still before God, and dried up and barren when He permits it, as to be full of life, enjoying His presence with ease and devotion. The whole matter of our union with God consists in being content either way.

Being ‘contented’ ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.

Being content with what you have already is an art form that leads to a peace that can’t be replaced by anything else.

Success is not the key to happiness, happiness is the key to success.

Jealousy, anger, fear – these are ridiculous emotions that drain your power. You need to control them by being content, trusting that life knows what is best, accepting with an even mind whatever is presented to you.

… we should not worry about clothes or food? Such anxiety is a mark of? unbelievers, who reject the providence of the Lord and deny the Creator. An attitude of this kind is entirely wrong for Christians who believe that even? sparrows? are under the care of the holy angels (cf. Mt. 10:29). The demons, however? suggest worries of this kind? The divine word can bear no fruit, being choked out by our cares. Let us, then, renounce these cares, and throw them down before the Lord, being content with what we have at the moment?

That her relationship with him was like being content in a house but always sitting by the window and looking out

We think of happiness as something we can take. But usually it comes from being content with what we have, and accepting ourselves.

Impatience makes us get ahead of ourselves, reaching out for something in the future and not really being content with where we are, here and now.

If you believe in what you’re doing, you’ll be successful.

Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.