Quotes About Contentment

Instead of last man standing, it'll be last man smiling.

A healthy man is content with a woman. An erotic man is content with a stocking to get to a woman. A sick man is content with thestocking.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

The poor wish for wealth; animals for the faculty of speech; men wish for heaven; and godly persons for liberation.

Love is the natural occupation of the man of leisure.

What makes men happy is liking what they have to do. This is a principle on which society is not founded

Pleasure is not the purpose of man's existence. Joy is.

A fat man is never so happy as when he is describing himself as "robust.

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible.

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.

The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.

The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen.

There are a lot of things in life way more important than money. All that said, some people do get confused. I play golf with a man who says, " What good is health? You can't buy money with it."

I have never yet heard any middle-aged man or woman who worked with his or her brains express any regret for the passing of youth.

Men set themselves a goal, and having attained it, are satisfied and grow paunches. In their complacency they forget that their only future is now death.

The wise man, knowing how to enjoy achieved results without having constantly to replace them with others, finds in them an attachment to life in the hour of difficulty.

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.

To give vent now and then to his feelings, whether of pleasure or discontent, is a great ease to a man's heart.

It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.

The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.

No man can tell if he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.