Quotes About Contentment

Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. If anyone finds out he'll become happy at once.

Man may content himself with the applause of the world and the homage paid to his intellect, but woman's heart has holier idols.

King is not a happy man, but a happy man is a king!

A man who can take anything will find most things unsatisfying. And a man without memories is just a shell.

As a man seeing someone, have a decision: You can be correct or you can be glad.

There is nothing rarer than a man who can be trusted never to throw away happiness, however eagerly he sometimes grasps it. In history we are as frequently interested in our own doom.

Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.

After 40 (old age for most of man's history), one should strive to be more or less packed and ready to go were the end call to come.

Call no day happy 'til it is done; call no man happy til he is dead.

Give me a well-cooked, well-served meal, a bouquet, and a sunset, and I can do more for a man's soul than all the cant ever preached. I can even do it without a sunset!

The more there is, the less I want. The more man flies to the moon, the more I want to look at a tree.

Man needs so little... yet he begins wanting so much.

I claim to be no more than an average man with below average capabilities.

A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.

Happy the man to whom heaven has given a morsel of bread without laying him under the obligation of thanking any other for it than heaven itself.

What most of all enables a man to serve the public is not wealth, but content and independence; which, requiring no superfluity at home, distracts not the mind from the common good.

Neath tile or thatch That man is rich Who has a scratch For every itch.

No man is rich who is unsatisfied, but who wants nothing possess his heart's desire.

Wonka: But, Charlie, don't forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he always wanted. Charlie: What happened? Wonka: He lived happily ever after.

Every man looks at his wood-pile with a kind of affection.

Call no man happy before he dies.

Temptations will no more prevail over a contented man, than a dart that is thrown against a brazen wall.

I can die a happy man never having been president of the United States of America. But it doesn't mean I won't run.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.