Quotes About Contentment

If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter, for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.

Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.

If we only wanted to be happy it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, which is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.

I never admired another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

Other people's eggs have two yolks.

Envy is an insult to oneself.

The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious.

You can't be envious and happy at the same time.

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly.

I don't want to own anything that won't fit into my coffin.

The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it.

The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it is intolerable.

A book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread - and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness - Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!

In this fool's paradise, he drank delight

There may be those on earth who dress better or eat better, but those who enjoy the peace of God sleep better.

If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.

May you have warmth in your igloo, oil in your lamp, and peace in your heart.

Perfection is out of the question.

Perfectionism is a dangerous state of mind in an imperfect world.

Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin. And yet I say unto you, that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

Follow pleasure, and then will pleasure flee, Flee pleasure, and pleasure will follow thee.

We are never so happy or so unhappy as we think.

Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.