Quotes About Contentment

Be content with what you are, and wish not change; not dread your last day, not long for it.

Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.

To live long, it is necessary to live slowly.

Give me neither poverty nor riches.

My credo is etched on my mirror in my bathroom and I see it when I brush my teeth in the morning. It says, "Don't worry, Be Happy, Feel Good." When you see that first thing, and you reflect on it, the rest of the day seems to glide by pretty well.

The day returns and brings us the petty round of irritating concerns and duties. Help us to play the man, help us to perform them with laughter and kind faces; let cheerfulness abound with industry. Give us to go blithely on our business all this day, bring us to our resting beds weary and content and undishonored, and grant us in the end the gift of sleep.

Wealth ... and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and vicious-ness, and both of discontent.

It is for the superfluous things of life that men sweat.

The crop always seems better in our neighbor's field, and our neighbor's cow gives more milk.

Be content to grow a little each day. If the improvement is the sort of thing which is very slow, do not measure it too often. Do a self-comparison every two weeks, or every six months, whatever is appropriate.

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

Blessed be he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

I rather like the world. The flesh is pleasing and the Devil does not trouble me.

I have come to understand that every day is something to cherish.

Gladly accept the gifts of the present hour.

He possesses dominion over himself, and is happy, who can every day say, "I have lived." Tomorrow the heavenly Father may either involve the world in dark clouds, or cheer it with clear sunshine; he will not, however, render ineffectual the things which have already taken place.

Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.

Pick my left pocket of its silver dime, but spare the right-it holds my golden time!

Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

That man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.

It is only possible to live happily-ever-after on a day-to-day basis.

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just to enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

Those who face that which is actually before them, unburdened by the past, undistracted by the future, these are they who live, who make the best use of their lives; these are those who have found the secret of contentment.

If you observe a really happy man, you will find ... that he is happy in tiie course of living life twenty-four crowded hours each day.