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Quotes About Contentment

Believe me, I want you to have a good time,' he said gently, 'but people who have that primarily in mind rarely accomplish it.
~ Sloan Wilson
I hope to one day co-sign a lease with another person but, well, it doesn't plague me that I have yet to do so. Put it this way: I've never had to violently tug at my own pillow at 2 A.M. to get myself to stop snoring.
~ Sloane Crosley
Call no man unhappy until he is married
~ Socrates
The rest of the world lives to eat, while I eat to live.
~ Socrates
My advice to you is to get married. If you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not you'll become a philosopher
~ Socrates
If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
~ Socrates
Contentment is natural wealth; luxury, artificial poverty.
~ Socrates
Often when looking at a mass of things for sale, he would say to himself, "How many things I have no need of!"
~ Socrates
How many things are there which I do not want.
~ Socrates
He is richest who is content with the least.
~ Socrates
My belief is that to have no wants is divine.
~ Socrates
He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
~ Socrates
He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
~ Socrates
If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.
~ Socrates
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.
~ Socrates
How many things can I do without?
~ Socrates
The really important thing is not live, but to live well.
~ Socrates
The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am.
~ Socrates
Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods.
~ Socrates
Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty".
~ Socrates
He who is not content with what he has will not be content with what he would like to have.
~ Socrates
He who is not contented with what he has, will not be contented with what he would like to have.
~ Socrates
Our task is to strike a balance, to find a middle way, to learn not to overstretch ourselves with extraneous activities and preoccupations, but to simplify our lives more and more. The key to finding a happy balance in modern lives is simplicity.
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
The key to finding a happy balance in modern lives is simplicity.
~ Sogyal Rinpoche