Contentment Quotes

Perhaps it's because I appreciate all I have so much that I don't worry about what I haven't got.

Leo Tolstoy

On the occasions when I have pondered over men's various activities, the dangers and worries they are exposed to at court or at war, from which so many quarrels, passions, risky, often ill-conceived actions and so on are born, I have often said that man's unhappiness springs from one thing alone, his incapacity to stay quietly in one room. A man wealthy enough for life's needs would never leave home to go to sea or beseige some fortress if he knew how to stay at home and enjoy it...

Blaise Pascal, Pense

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.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.

Socrates

I have learned in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. Philippians 4:11

Bible

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

Bible

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.

G. K. Chesterton

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.

John Dryden

Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.

Louis L'Amour

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

John Fowles

A Sunday well-spent brings a week of content.

Proverb

To the right, books; to the left, a tea-cup. In front of me, the fireplace; behind me, the post. There is no greater happiness than this.

Teiga

Contentment is not the fulfillment of what you want, but the realization of how much you already have.

Source Unknown

When you can think of yesterday without regret and tomorrow without fear, you are near contentment.

Source Unknown

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

John Bunyan

Some men fish all their lives without knowing it is not really the fish they are after.

Henry David Thoreau

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.

Tryon Edwards

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

Vimalia Mcclure

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

Lucretius

I don't want to own anything that won't fit into my coffin.

Fred A. Allen