Quotes About Contentment

It's no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.

A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments.

The mere sense of living is joy enough.

A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can you want?

Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call today his own: He who, secure within, can say, Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have liv'd today.

Is anyone in all the world safe from unhappiness?

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

Irresolution on the schemes of life I which offer themselves to our choice, and inconstancy in pursuing them, are the greatest causes of all unhappiness.

Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.

All mankind's unhappiness derives from one thing: his inability to know how to remain in repose in one room.

Let him who believes in immortality enjoy his happiness in silence without giving himself airs about it.

If we have not achieved our early dreams, we must either find new ones or see what we can salvage from the old. If we have accomplished what we set out to do in our youth, we need not weep like Alexander the Great that we have no more worlds to conquer.

One must desire something to be alive: perhaps absolute satisfaction is only another name for Death.

Be content with your wages.

Constantly choose rather to want less, than to have more.

I glory more in the coming purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.

One cannot both feast and become rich.

Riches enlarge, rather than satisfy appetites.

True abundance is not about gathering more things, it's about touching the place in us that is connected to the divine source of abundance, so that we know what we need in the moment will be provided.

It is good to have things that money can buy, but it is also good to check up once in awhile and be sure we have the things money can't buy.

'Let us not get so busy or live so fast that we can't listen to the music of the meadow or the symphony that glorifies the forest. Some things in the world are far more important than wealth; one of them is the ability to enjoy simple things.

It is wealth to be content.

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.

If you're happy, you're wealthy! Happiness doesn't need a bank account.