Quotes About Contentment

May I consider the wise man rich, and may I have such wealth as only the self-restrained man can bear or endure.

A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

As incredible as it sounds, an unhappy man does not realize that happiness is better than unhappiness. Knowing only his own concealed anguish, he worships it, which is the same as self-worship.

Contentment is rare among men as it is natural among animals

Parsimony is enough to make the master of the golden mines as poor as he that has nothing; for a man may be brought to a morsel of bread by parsimony as well as profusion.

We find that the more a cultivated reason devotes itself to the aim of enjoying life and happiness, the further does man get away from true contentment.

What makes man most unhappy is to be deprived not of that which he had, but of that which he did not have, and did not really know.

By his own efforts man could never gain the true and desired riches.

The way is light and fluid for the man with no preferences.

The gift finds the man attractive who stands with an empty bowl he does not own.

The Christian is the most contented man in the world, but he is the least contented with the world.

He who affirms that Christianity makes men miserable, is himself an utter stranger to it.

There is but one man who can believe himself free from envy; and it is he who has never examined his own heart.

Paradise for a happy man lies in his own good nature.

It is unlikely that the good of a snail should reside in its shell: so is it likely that the good of a man should?

The acquisition of riches has been for many men, not an end, but a change, of troubles.

Any man who does not think that what he has is more than ample, is an unhappy man, even if he is the master of the whole world.

Happiness is a man's greatest achievement; it is the response of his total personality to a productive orientation toward himself and the world outside.

The mass of men lead lives of shallow happiness; the superior man exults in his gloom.

Satisfaction may be the goal of the common man, but it is the enemy of greatness.

A moderately honest man with a moderately faithful wife, moderate drinkers both, in a moderately healthy house: that is the true middle class unit.

The best years of a man's life are after he is forty. A man at forty has ceased to hunt the moon.

When [man] is happy he takes his happiness as it comes and doesn't analyze it, just as if happiness were his right.

Can a man be poor if he is free from want, if he does not covet the belongings of others, if he is rich in the possession of God? Rather, he is poor who possesses much but still craves for more.