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There is something special about a quiet untouched forest that just pulls you into the moment. Something that no parks will ever be able to achieve. Isn't that what we're all searching for in life? To just be happy and content in the moment, to just be there in the "now"?
Sep 26, 2025
I learned early in life not to judge others. We outcasts are very happy and content to leave that job to our social superiors.
Be happy, and a reason will come along.
I was so happy and content with in life playing music. Music was always my first job and my day gig was my second job.
Osho used me and Shunyo (my girlfriend at the time) as an example of how he envisioned men and women should relate. He shared a story he had often told in discourse of a man and woman who lived at opposite ends of a lake. They were deeply in love but only met by chance when sometimes out rowing on the water. He said it was beautiful how Shunyo and I met like this couple. When we had the feeling to be together, we would meet and enjoy. And when we were apart, we were also happy and content in our aloneness.
By prolonged and continued fellowship, the sheep who follow nearby enjoy the shepherd's presence and become his familiar companions. To those closest to him, he shares the choicest portions of the food he's gathered. These happy and content sheep are never in danger. Why? Because they are near the shepherd!
I'm happy and content in my life, and I chalk that up to wonderful parents and a wonderful God.
I've always thought the best relationships are those that are as happy and content in silence as they are in action [...]
The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.
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.
At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.
The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters.
There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
They told me I didn't understand the assignment, I told them they didn't understand life.
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.
When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down happy.
We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more.
Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.
Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
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.
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.
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.
Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.
Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
If people get all the sex they can handle, they're so happy and content they just sit around and smile. I mean, you never feel aggressive just after you've gotten laid, right? Lots of sex for everybody, that's a solution to the world's problems.
There is so much to love and to admire in this life that it is an act of ingratitude not to be happy and content in this existence.
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.
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