Quotes About Contentment

All the money in the world is spent on feeling good.

When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean.

The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world.

Being content with what you have already is an art form that leads to a peace that can't be replaced by anything else.

Greed is permanent slavery

The poor long for riches, the rich long for heaven, but the wise long for a state of tranquility.

Children, old people, vagabonds laugh easily and heartily: they have nothing to lose and hope for little. In renunciation lies a delicious taste of simplicity and deep peace.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Wisdom and joy arise when you learn to exist now rather than in the nonexistent past or future.

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

The biggest human temptation is... to settle for too little.

Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.

A man is happy who is happy with his Naseeb(allotted portion).

Nothing can make you happier than you are. All search for happiness is misery and leads to more misery. The only happiness worth the name is the natural happiness of conscious being.

Riches bring anxiety; wisdom gives peace of mind.

The difference between me and you is... that I don't mind what happens.

The soul is here for its own joy.

Peace is worth more than all worldly possessions; in addition, God rewards it even in this life.

Find the love you seek, by first finding the love within yourself. Learn to rest in that place within you that is your true home.

A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contently.

If it be true that a man is rich who wants nothing, a wise man is a very rich man.

True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods.

Just as it is agreed that we all wish to be happy, so it is that we all wish to be wise, since no one without wisdom is happy.

And he that is taught to live upon little, owes more to his father's wisdom, than he that has a great deal left him, does to his father's care.