Contentment Quotes

The man whom no one pleases is much more unhappy than the man who pleases no one.

We can get excited by thinking about what all we have or can have, OR we can get discouraged by thinking about what all we don't have.

I have lived long enough to learn how much there is I can really do without.... He is nearest to God who needs the fewest things.

Being prime minister isn't the only job in life! As far as I'm concerned, I could live in a village and be satisfied.

Strong and content I travel the open road.

To have little is to possess.

If your life at night is good, you think you have Everything; but, if in that quarter things go wrong, You will consider your best and truest interests Most hateful.

True happiness comes from having a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved by cultivating altruism, love and compassion, and by eliminating anger, selfishness and greed.

The mug from the washstand was used as Becky's tea cup, and the tea was so delicious that it was not necessary to pretend that it was anything but tea.

Rushing around, hoping to find peace of mind anywhere other than within yourself, is like looking for your heart in someone else's body!

Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road. Healthy, free, the world before me. The long brown path before me leading me wherever I choose. Henceforth, I ask not good fortune, I myself am good fortune. Henceforth, I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing.

One interesting thing about greed is that although the underlying motive is to seek satisfaction, the irony is that even after obtaining the object of your desire you are still not satisfied. The true antidote of greed is contentment.

Happiness does not consist in having what you want, but in wanting what you have

To be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth.

I believe that the very purpose of life is to be happy. From the very core of our being, we desire contentment. In my own limited experience I have found that the more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being.

There is a pleasure in not being pleased.

The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.

You have everything you need for complete peace and total happiness right now.

Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living.

When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

Compassion naturally creates a positive atmosphere, and as a result you feel peaceful and content.

The brash unbridled tongue, the lawless folly of fools, will end in pain. But the life of wise content is blest with quietness, escapes the storm and keeps its house secure.

If you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.

To be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth. As long as one sorely needs a certain additional amount, that man isn't rich.

Poverty ... It is life near the bone, where it is sweetest.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

I have enough...and I allow what I already have enough of to flow to me.

The boatmen appeared to lead an easy and contented life, and we thought that we should prefer their employment ourselves to many professions which are much more sought after. They suggested how few circumstances are necessary to the well-being and serenity of man, how indifferent all employments are, and that any may seem noble and poetic to the eyes of men, if pursued with sufficient buoyancy and freedom.

Be deeply satisfied and ready for more.

Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.

Take me and cast me where you will; I shall still be possessor of the divinity within me, serene and content.

There is no greater offence than harbouring desires. There is no greater disaster than discontent. There is no greater misfortune than wanting more.

Let men of all ranks whether they are successful, or unsuccessful, whether they triumph or not; let them do their duty, and rest satisfied.

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite - only a sense of existence. Well, anything for variety.

Poor and content, is rich and rich enough; But riches, fineless, is as poor as winter, To him that ever fears he shall be poor.

Everything I need now is here

I have a house that I bought 55 years ago. It's warm in the winter; it's cool in the summer. It has everything I wanted, plus it has all kinds of good memories. Like my kids, I have good thoughts about that. I can't imagine living any better.

Don't Seek Happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness

If a man doesn't find ease in himself, 'tis in vain to seek it elsewhere.

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

I have two Golden Boot awards at home. It would be nice to win another, but I wouldn't mind it if I didn't.

I seem to have dodged all my days with one or two persons, and lived upon expectation,--as if the bud would surely blossom; and soI am content to live.

The true husbandman will cease from anxiety, as the squirrels manifest no concern whether the woods will bear chestnuts this year or not, and finish his labor with every day, relinquishing all claim to the produce of his fields, and sacrificing in his mind not only his first but last fruits also.

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

I am no more lonely than a single mullein or dandelion in a pasture, or a bean leaf, or sorrel, or a horse-fly, or a bumblebee. I am no more lonely than the Mill Brook, or a weathercock, or the north star, or the south wind, or an April shower, or a January thaw, or the first spider in a new house.

Last night my teacher taught me the lesson of Poverty: Having nothing and wanting nothing.

To sit and contemplate - to remember the faces of women without desire, to be pleased by the great deeds of men without envy, to be everything and everywhere in sympathy and yet content to remain where and what you are.

He who needs only coarse food, water and drink, and as pillow his folded arms will find happiness without further search.

If your life at night is good, you think you have everything.

Nature herself makes the wise man rich.

How many things I can do without!

Be content with an ordinary life.

She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy.

I exist as I am, that is enough, If no other in the world be aware I sit content, And if each and all be aware I sit content. One world is aware, and by the far the largest to me, and that is myself, And whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years, I can cheerfully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness, I can wait.

Be happy with what you have while working for what you want.

I exist as I am, that is enough, If no other in the world be aware, I sit content, And if each and all be aware, I sit content.

As long as a man is alive and out of hell, he cannot have any cause to complain.

May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Happy domestic life is like a beautiful summer's evening; the heart is filled with peace; and everything around derives a peculiar glory.