Quotes About Contentment

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby

A single day is sufficient for a man to discover what happiness is.

You will be able to check envy if you rejoice with the man whom you envy whenever he rejoices, and grieve whenever he grieves.

In my solitude, many miles from men and houses, I am in a childishly happy and carefree state of mind, which you are incapable of understanding unless someone explains it to you

Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's "yes," all's well. That is enough.

Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfillment of animal desires.

For the wise man, every day is a festival.

I guess I'm the most successful man I know. I wouldn't trade places with anybody in the world.

No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.

If you are as happy in entering the White House as I shall feel on returning to Wheatland, you are a happy man indeed.

People all say that I've had a bad break. But today... today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth.

A man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.

The true poet, is like a man who's happy anywhere, in endless measure, if he's allowed to look at leaves and grass, to see the sun rise and set.

When a man is ill,he has only one wish -to gain health,and when he does -then come a hundred wishes and he turns even unhappier than when he was lying sick in bed

Life's been good to me. Why am I so lonely and bored? I used to wonder why so many rich men commit suicide. I no longer wonder.

The man who has God for his treasure has all things in one.

No man truly has joy unless he lives in love.

The wise man admires water, the kind man admires mountains. The wise man moves, the kind man rests. The wise man is happy, the kind man is firm.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

Every man looks out for himself, and he has the happiest life who manages to hoodwink himself best of all.

Who is the covetous man? One for whom plenty is not enough.

The happy man is he who knows his limitations, yet bows to no false gods.

God has made all men to be happy.