Quotes About Contentment

That man is blest who does his best and leaves the rest.

No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it.

It is not in novelty but in habit that we find the greatest pleasure.

Time is a flowing river. Happy those who allow themselves to be carried, unresisting, with the current. They float through easy days. They live, unquestioning, in the moment.

The true exercise of freedom is-can-nily and wisely and with grace-to move inside what space confines-and not seek to know what lies beyond and cannot be touched or tasted.

Man's heart is never satisfied; the snake would swallow the elephant.

When every blessed thing you have is made of silver, or of gold, you long for simple pewter.

I'd rather have written "Cheers" than anything I've written.

He who would be happy should stay at home.

It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.

He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another.

There are three wants which can never be satisfied: that of the rich, who want something more; that of the sick, who want something different; and that of the traveler, who says, "Anywhere but here."

Happiness grows at our firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

If solid happiness we prize, within our breast this jewel lies, And they are fools who roam; the world has nothing to bestow, From our own selves our bliss must flow, And that dear hut-our home.

We are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

I just want to be an ordinary girl.

Renown is a source of toil and sorrow; obscurity is a source of happiness.

My crown is called content; a crown it is that seldom kings enjoy.

Men are all the same. They always think that something they are going to get is better than what they have got.

Beggars do not envy millionaires, though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

I murmured because I had no shoes, until I met man who had no feet.

Comparison, more than reality, makes men happy or wretched.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.