Quotes About Contentment

It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy.

Doubly happy, however, is the man to whom lofty mountain tops are within reach.

There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.

The man who has a house everywhere has a home nowhere

Do you see what little is required of a man to live a well-tempered and god-fearing life? Obey these precepts, and the gods will ask nothing more.

I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.

A small room is enough; a small quantity of food is enough; a few clothes are enough; one lover, a very ordinary man

A man may surely be allowed to take a glass of wine by his own fireside.

Among many parallels which men of imagination have drawn between the natural and moral state of the world, it has been observed that happiness as well as virtue consists in mediocrity.

Like the man said, can happiness buy money?

This man has conquered the world! What have you done?" The philosopher replied without an instant's hesitation, "I have conquered the need to conquer the world.

A man that is well ordered in his soul needeth little the unkind demeanor of worldly people nor yet their proud behavior.

There is in man a higher than love of happiness; he can do without happiness, and instead thereof find blessedness.

For, as I suppose, no man in this world hath lived better than I have done, to achieve that I have done.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.

Show me a satisfied man, and I'll show you a failure.

I have lived to prove Thoreau's contention that a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.

The discontented man finds no easy chair.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and therefore the state in which one is most likely to find solid happiness.

Only madmen and fools are pleased with themselves; no wise man is good enough for his own satisfaction.

All the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber.

It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation.

What do you get the man who has everything? Might I suggest a gravestone inscribed with the words: so what?