Quotes About Contentment

Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.

We must learn to accept life and to accept ourselves ... with a shrug and a smile ... because it's all we've got.

Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.

That man is blest who does his best and leaves the rest; do not worry.

Living upon a basis of unsatisfied demands, we were in a state of continual disturbance and frustration. Therefore, no peace was to be had unless we could find a means of reducing these demands.

I have an inward treasure born within me, which can keep me alive if all the extraneous delights should be withheld; or offered only at a price I cannot afford.

The struggle to the top is in itself enough to fulfill the human heart. Sisyphus should be regarded as happy.

They say a reasonable amount o' fleas is good for a dog - it keeps him from broodin' over bein' a dog mebbe.

They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.

Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since.

To make pleasure pleasant, shorten.

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity. I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumbnail.

I haven't asked you to make me young again. All I want is to go on getting older.

One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of 'not going'!

I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me. 'Don't complain about growing old - many people don't have that privilege.'

If you think that I am going to bother myself again before I die about social improvement, or read any of those stinking upward and onwarders - you err - I mean to have some good out of being old.

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

Worries go down better with soup than without.

The bed has become a place of luxury to me! I would not exchange it for all the thrones in the world.

Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

You know you are getting older when "happy hour" is a nap.

Over-excitement and boredom are states of mind which I equally shun.

Better is half a loaf than no bread.