Contentment Quotes

He that's content hath enough.

What I know for sure: Having the best things is no substitute for having the best life. When you can let go of the desire to acquire, you know you are really on your way.

Contentment is natural wealth.

As merry as the day is long.

Paradise is where I am

Two there are who are never satisfied -- the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge.

Enough is abundance to the wise.

Me imperturbe, standing at ease in nature.

Those who know others are intelligent Those who know themselves have insight. Those who master others have force Those who master themselves have strength.Those who know what is enough are wealthy. Those who persevere have direction. Those who maintain their position endure. And those who die and yet do not perish, live on.

Most people want to get what they want, whereas the secret is to want what you get at this moment.

Contentment with life is not a feeling, but it is a decision we must make.

I was complaining that I had no shoes till I met a man who had no feet.

It is possible to invent a house still more convenient and luxurious than we have...but shall we always study to obtain more of these things, and not sometimes to be content with less?

My manner of living is plain and I do not mean to be put out of it. A glass of wine and a bit of mutton are always ready.

It is better to desire the things we have than to have the things we desire.

The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.

Stop needing and start having. Stop wanting and start being.

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

For unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax. There is no point whatever in making plans for a future which you will never be able to enjoy. When your plans mature, you will still be living for some other future beyond. You will never, never be able to sit back with full contentment and say, "Now, I've arrived!" Your entire education has deprived you of this capacity because it was preparing you for the future, instead of showing you how to be alive now.

Happy, not from anything that happens. Warm, not from fire or a hot bath. Light, I register zero on a scale.

The poet's habit of living should be set on a key so low that the common influences should delight him.

Remember, the grass is always greener where you don't happen to be the neighbor.

What a lot of things there are a man can do without.

A man's wealth is measured by what he doesn't need.

I would not a bit mind sleeping in the cool grass in summer, and when winter came on sheltering myself by the warm close-thatched rick, or under the penthouse of a great barn, provided I had love in my heart.

We should scarcely desire things ardently if we were perfectly acquainted with what we desire.

He has the most who is most content with the least.

Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poor-house.

How often in life must one be content with what one can get!

A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contently.

The inhabitants of the Cape generally do not complain of their "soil," but will tell you that it is good enough for them to dry their fish on.

Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.

Being satisfied with little, you can gain much. Seeking much you will go astray. The wise heeds this precept. If it could be so with all people!

It is wealth to be content.

Not to be covetous, is money; not to be a purchaser, is a revenue.

Try to live the life of the good man who is more than content with what is allocated to him.

I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.

He that is rich need not live sparingly,and he that can live sparingly need not be rich.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

I am content to be a bric-a-bracker and a Ceramiker.

Here's one of the great challenges of life. Being happy with what you have while in pursuit of what you want.

I am thankful for small mercies. I compared notes with one of my friends who expect everything of the universe, and is disappointed when anything is less than the best, and I found that I begin at the other extreme, expecting nothing, and am always full of thanks for moderate good. . . . If we will take the good we find, . . . we shall have heaping measures. . . .

Our content Is our best having.

I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.

There is a saying in Tibetan that "at the door of the miserable rich man sleeps the contented beggar". The point of this saying is not that poverty is a virtue, but that happiness does not come with wealth, but from setting limits to one's desires, and living within those limits with satisfaction.

Marriage is tolerable enough in its way if youre easygoing and dont expect too much from it. But it doesnt bear thinking about.

They who have nothing to trouble them,will be troubled at nothing.

Whether one showed you and execution or a little finger, you would extract an equally edifying thought from both of them, and would still be content. That's the way to get on in life.

Wealth and Content are not always Bed-fellows.

One doesn't always lose when one has to do without.

I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.

Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave, let him know he has enough.

The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.

The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion. I would rather ride on earth in an ox cart, with a free circulation, than go to heaven in the fancy car of an excursion train and breathe a malaria all the way.

The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.

I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness, glad of other men's good, content with my harm.

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.

One is not rich by what one owns, but more by what one is able to do without with dignity.

There is no greater sin than desire, No greater curse than discontent, No greater misfortune than wanting something for oneself. Therefore he who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.