Quotes About Contentment

If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he entitled to happiness?

I believe many a man is praying to God to fill him, when he is full already with something else. Before we pray that God would fill us, I believe we ought to pray Him to empty us.

I've never met another man I'd rather be.

I don't need a man. But I'm happier with one. I like to have someone I can touch and squeeze and kiss. But I don't fold up and die if I don't have a man around.

Man does not live by bread alone, even presliced bread.

There is nothing terrible in life for the man who realizes there is nothing terrible in death.

The wise man is satisfied with nothing.

If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.

The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

I am a man of simple tastes-I am quite easily satisfied with the best of everything.

Good health, longevity, happiness, a loving family, self-reliance, fine friends … if you [have] five, you're a rich man….

I used to think that having many material things would increase one's stock of happiness. I found that to be completely untrue. The trappings don't make the man at all.

I've never seen a man in my life I wanted to marry.

Hell, I'm an old man. I'm 70 years old. I'm supposed to be sitting on a rocking chair watching the sunset.

All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room.

You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up.

Look closely into his aims, observe the means by which he pursues them, discover what brings him content - and can the man's real worth remain hidden from you?

To be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth. As long as one sorely needs a certain additional amount, that man isn't rich.

Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.

It is a great happiness when men's professions and their inclinations accord.

Take all away from me, but leave me Ecstasy, And I am richer then than all my Fellow Men-.

Oh my God," he said. "A kind word from Rose Hathaway. I can die a happy man.

If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care the happiest, individual would not be either a man or a woman it; it would be, I think a cow.

Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason, a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great riches; for never is there any lack of a little.