Quotes About Contentment

Being unable to cure death, wretchedness, and ignorance, men have decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things.

All man's troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room.

Every man's the same, he wants the sunshine in his name.

I have never met a woman, or man, who stated emphatically, "Yes, I have it all.'" Because no matter what any of us has—and how grateful we are for what we have—no one has it all.

The sleep of a laboring man is sweet.

I was the happiest man in the world, happier than Bill Gates

Not to be content with Life is the unsatisfactory state of those which destroy themselves; who being afraid to live, run blindly upon their own Death, which no Man fears by Experience.

No man is happy but by comparison.

The mouth of a perfectly contented man is filled with beer. -Egyptian proverb, c. 2200 BCE

A man with a million dollars can be as happy nowadays as though he were rich.

If she be not honest, chaste, and true, there's no man happy.

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

Nothing is more sterile or lamentable than the man content to live within himself.

To the covetous man life is a nightmare, and God lets him wrestle with it as best he may.

If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours. If you want to make a wise man happy - improve yourself!

Happy is the man who can do only one thing; in doing it, he fulfills his destiny.

And if ye angler take fysshe; surely thenne is there noo man merier than he is in his spyryte.

Every stage of life has its troubles, and no man is content with his own age.

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By the time I'm old, I'm sure I'll have lived a full enough life. I think we're mortal for a reason. Life gets tiring, man!

What frightens me is that men are content with what is not life at all.

What is it that every man seeks? To be secure, to be happy, to do what he pleases without restraint and without compulsion.

Few things are needful to make the wise man happy, but nothing satisfies the fool; - and this is the reason why so many of mankind are miserable.

No man can be satisfied with his attainment, although he may be satisfied with his circumstances.