Quotes About Contentment

In every height, man feels himself in the low; because man is greedy and unsatisfied!

..a man may live long, yet live very little. Satisfaction in life depends not on the number of your years, but on your will.

The great and glorious masterpiece of men is to live to the point. All other things-to reign, to hoard, to build-are, at most, but inconsiderable props and appendages.

A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse.

a man possessed with peace is always smiling

No two men are alike, and both of them are happy for it.

There is a gentle element, and man may breathe it with a calm, unruffled soul, and drink its living waters, till his heart is pure; and this is human happiness.

I was once in a long relationship with a man who ran a vintage clothes store but had been a chef, so I'd come home each night to a different three-course meal. I was quite fat, but so happy.

Only a man who is happy can create happiness in others.

When a man forgets his ideals he may hope for happiness, but not till then.

We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.

Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain.

Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long.

A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year.

Riches too increase, and the maddening craving for gold, So that men ever seek for more, that they may have the most.

If the gatherer gathers too-much, Nature takes out of the man what she puts into his chest; swells the estate, but kills the owner. Nature hates, monopolies and exceptions.

I'm a new mum who spends her days making baby food and cooking for her man. And I couldn't be happier.

The man is mechanically turned, and made for getting. . . . It was verily prettily said that we may learn the little value of fortune by the persons on whom Heaven is pleased to bestow it.

Hell of a thing when a man's got good health, plenty of money and absolutely nothing to do.

I'm really boring, man. Like, I'm really dull. And I think people may think that I have this glamorous, fun lifestyle, but it's pretty dull. But that's what I like.

That man is richest who's pleasure are cheapest.

It is remarkable that there are few men so well employed, so much to their minds, but that a little money or fame would commonly buy them off from their present pursuit.

One who knew how to appropriate the true value of this world would be the poorest man in it. The poor rich man! all he has is whathe has bought.

He is the rich man, and enjoys the fruit of his riches, who summer and winter forever can find delight in his own thoughts.