"We are all born mad. Some remain so."

Beckett, Samuel | Insanity | 3 bookmarks

"Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty."

Socrates | Contentment | 3 bookmarks

"He is rich who is content with the least; for contentment is the wealth of nature."

Socrates | Contentment | 2 bookmarks

"The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desire for things beyond your reach."

Lin Yu-tang | Contentment | 1 bookmarks

"Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst."

Lin Yu-tang | Peace of Mind | 3 bookmarks

"If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live."

Lin Yu-tang | Life and Living | 1 bookmarks

"Like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its tone is mellower, its colors are richer, and it is tinged with a little sorrow. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and its content."

Lin Yu-tang | Age and Aging | 2 bookmarks

"My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more."

Lamb, Charles | Contentment | 2 bookmarks

"Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence."

Haliburton, Thomas C. | Contentment | 1 bookmarks

"Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor."

Franklin, Benjamin | Contentment | 3 bookmarks