Quotes About Contentment

Yeah. You've seen The Sun today; I've got myself a big house, settled down. Apart from the odd night out with the New Fathers' Club, I'm a family man now.

The substance of man cannot be measured by Gross National Product.

The happy man is he who turns his soul Unto the light of joys that he can find; And pays each day its just demand of toll, But shuts the future troubles from his mind.

For easy things, that may be got at will, Most sorts of men do set but little store.

Man wants but little, nor that little long; How soon must he resign his very dust, Which frugal nature lent him for an hour!

A man I knew who lived upon a smile, And well it fed him; he look'd plump and fair, While rankest venom foam'd through every vein.

A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who ''lives well.''

God alone is satisfied with what He is and can proclaim: "I am what I am." Unlike God, man strives with all his might to be what he is not. He incessantly proclaims: "I am what I am not.

It would not be better if men got what they wanted.

Account no man happy till he dies.

I envy that man who passes through life safely, to the world and fame unknown.

Life is short; this being so, who would pursue great things and not bear with what is at hand? These are the ways of madmen and men of evil counsel, at least in my judgment.

Let mortal man keep to his own Mortality, and not expect too much.

I'm upset by the happiness of all these men who don't know they're unhappy. Because of that, though, I love them all. Dear vegetables!

Why should a man be in love with his fetters, though of gold?

The grave is sooner cloy'd than men's desire.

Few things are needed to make a wise man happy; nothing can make a fool content; that is why most men are miserable.

all at once I saw that the sun was round! Since then I have been the happiest man on Earth!

For men are made for happiness, and any one who is completely happy has a right to say to himself, 'I am doing God's will on earth.'

There is pleasure And there is bliss. Forgo the first to possess the second. If you are happy At the expense of another man's happiness, You are forever bound.

Oh! 'tis a precious thing, when wives are dead, To find such numbers who will serve instead: And in whatever state a man be thrown, 'Tis that precisely they would wish their own.

To every man it is decreed: Thou shalt live alone. Happy they who imagine that they have escaped the common lot; happy, whilst they imagine it.

A discontented man knowes not where to sit easie.

When all men have what belongs to them, it cannot bee much. [When all men have what belongs to them, it cannot be much.]