Quotes about contentment

"A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world."

Addison, Joseph on contentment
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"I don't want to own anything that won't fit into my coffin."

Allen, Fred A. on contentment
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"Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase."

Balguy, John on contentment   

"For I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. [St. Paul In Philippians 4:11]"

Bible on contentment
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"I have learned in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. [Philippians 4:11]"

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"People are never free of trying to be content."

Bookchin, Murray on contentment   

"If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot."

Bunyan, John on contentment   

"There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion."

Byron, Lord on contentment   

"True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on contentment   

"Being contented ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on contentment   

"Try to be like the turtle -- at ease in your own shell"

Copeland, Bill on contentment
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"There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction."

Dali, Salvador on contentment
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"Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today."

Dryden, John on contentment
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"To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own."

Edwards, Tryon on contentment
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"A man who is contented with what he has done will never become famous for what he will do."

Estabrook, Fred on contentment   

"Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man."

Fowles, John on contentment   

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

Franklin, Benjamin on contentment
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"Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor."

Franklin, Benjamin on contentment
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"Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire."

Fuller, Thomas on contentment
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"Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem."

Gibran, Kahlil on contentment
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"Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness."

Gladstone, William E. on contentment
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"There are two kinds of discontent in this world. The discontent that works, and the discontent that wrings its hands. The first gets what it wants. The second loses what it has. There's no cure for the first, but success and there's no cure at all for the second."

Graham, Gordon on contentment   

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

Haliburton, Thomas C. on contentment   

"If the book is good, is about something that you know, and is truly written, and reading it over you see that this is so, you can let the boys yip and the noise will have that pleasant sound coyotes make on a very cold night when they are out in the snow and you are in your own cabin that you have built or paid for with your work."

Hemingway, Ernest on contentment   

"The contented man can be happy with what appears to be useless."

Hung Ko on contentment   

"When we cannot find contentment in ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on contentment   

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

Lamb, Charles on contentment
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"Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content."

L'Amour, Louis on contentment   

"To be content with life -- or to live merrily, rather --all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on contentment   

"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 on contentment   

"A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else."

Locke, John on contentment   

"The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied."

Lucretius on contentment   

"To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power."

Macdonald, George on contentment   

"It is right to be contented with what we have, but never with what we are."

Mackintosh, James on contentment   

"To accept what you are is to be content, and contentment is the greatest wealth. To work with patience is to gather power."

Mcclure, Vimalia on contentment
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"Riches are not from abundance of worldly goods, but from a contented mind."

Mohammed on contentment
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"One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers."

O'Neill, Eugene on contentment   

"If you are content, you have enough to live comfortably."

Plautus, Titus Maccius on contentment   

"Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied."

Plutarch on contentment   

"A Sunday well-spent brings a week of content."

Proverb on contentment