Contentment Quote by Sylvia Day

As we sometimes find one thing while we are looking for another, so, if truth escaped me, happiness and contentment fell in my way.

— Walter Savage Landor

All these years I had been sustained by an illusion-happiness through victory- and now that illusion was burned to ashes. I was no more…

— Dan Millman

This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and…

— Anonymous

Eventually, I realized that there was only so much that I could put in the way of my happiness, and acting made me happier…

— Maya Hawke

Now I have neither happiness nor unhappiness.Everything passes.That is the one and only thing that I have thought resembled a truth in the society…

— Osamu Dazai

All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled…

— Honore de Balzac

Life is full of its disappointments, and I suppose the art of being happy is to disguise them as illusions.

— Hector Hugh Munro

I had looked for happiness in fast living, but it was not there. I tried to find it in money, but it was not…

— Edward Young

I never even believed in happiness. I didn't think it existed. Now look at me. I'm ready to believe in just about anything.

— Alice Hoffman

Where happiness was not a possibility, the illusion of it was always more important.

— Colum McCann

I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them turned out to be illusions.

— Taylor Caldwell

I would say I kind of just realized one day that it wasn't worth hiding from my emotions, and that I was unhappy, and…

— Noah Centineo