#Contentment Quotes

“So we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh at gilded butterflies.”

“Merrily, merrily shall I live now,Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.”

“All is well ended if this suit be won. That you express content; which we will pay, With strife to please you, day exceeding day.”

“Our content Is our best having.”

“Thus play I in one person many people, And none contented: sometimes am I king; Then treasons make me wish myself a beggar, And so I am: then crushing penury Persuades me I was better when a king; Then am I king'd again: and by and by Think that I am unking'd by Bolingbroke, And straight am nothing: but whate'er I be, Nor I nor any man that but man is With nothing shall be pleased, till he be eased With being nothing.”

“My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.”

“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.”

“We suffer a lot the few things we lack and we enjoy too little the many things we have.”

“GLOUCESTER: I do not know that Englishman alive With whom my soul is any jot at odds, More than the infant that is born to-night: I thank my God for my humility.”

“Travelers must be content.”

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

“Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.”

“Me, poor man, my library Was dukedom large enough.”

“Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?”

“If men could be contented to be what they are, there were no fear in marriage.”

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

“Having my freedom, boast of nothing else.”

“As merry as the day is long.”

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

“For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth bringsThat then I scorn to change my state with kings.”

“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.”

“Health, south wind, books, old trees, a boat, a friend.”

“I could be well content To entertain the lag-end of my life With quiet hours.”

“My crown is in my heart, not on my head; not decked with diamonds and Indian stones, nor to be seen: my crown is called content, a crown it is that seldom kings enjoy.”

“Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade To shepherds, looking on their silly sheep, Than doth a rich embroider'd canopy To kings that fear their subjects treachery?”

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

“To fill the hour; that is happiness to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval.”

“Verily, I swear, it is better to be lowly born, and range with humble livers in content, than to be perked up in a glistering grief, and wear a golden sorrow.”

“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. . . .”

“We shouldn't want things and we should be satisfied with no thing. Furthermore, we don't deserve whatever we would like to have in our lives because we think we have been bad, we feel insufficient, or somebody else has convinced us that we're not worthy.”

“Enjoy the moment, because that is all you have. You never are going to arrive someplace else. You are in a constant state of living in this moment, and that is the only arrival there is. In fact, you will arrive when you stop trying to get someplace else.”

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

“Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else.”

“To fill the hour──that is happiness.”

“Why should I be unhappy? Every parcel of my being is in full bloom.”

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

“I don't think goal setting is an important basis for a retail business - or for anyone. Most of the time goal setting puts too much energy and attention on being someplace else, instead of helping you appreciate where you are.If I ran a retail store, which I have done in my life, I would go into it from a place of "I am thrilled to be here, and I am honored to be able to serve other people." I would not be telling myself constantly that I have to double my sales in order for me to be happy. I would tell myself, "I am content to be here in this moment, and I love this work."”

“If we do not feel grateful for what we already have, what makes us think we'd be happy with more.”

“He is well paid that is well satisfied.”

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

“It makes no difference where you go, there you are. And it makes no difference what you have, there’s always more to want. Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy because of what you have.”

“Accept that you are enough. You don't need to be anything that you are not.”

“I swear again, I would not be a queenFor all the world.”

“The greatest source of happiness is the ability to be grateful at all times.”

“You don't have to have more in order to be happy.”

“Abundance is about looking at life and knowing that you have everything you need for complete happiness, and then being able to celebrate each and every moment on earth.”

“Realize How Little you Need in Order to be Satisfied and at Peace.”

“The moment you begin to worry about the things you want and the things you don’t have in life is the moment you will lose your gratitude... The greatest source of happiness is the ability to be grateful at all times.”

“The welfare, the happiness, the energy and spirit of the men and women who do the daily workis the underlying necessity of all prosperity.... There can be nothing wholesome unless their life is wholesome; there can be no contentment unless they are contented.”

“The fewer the desires, the more peace.”