Quotes About Contentment

Every man judges his own happiness and satisfaction with life in terms of his possession or lack of possession of those things that he considers worthwhile and valuable.

This much is certain: when a man is happy, happy to the core and root of beatitude, he is no longer conscious of himself or anything else.

If I never do another show, I'll die a happy man.

Let men of all ranks whether they are successful, or unsuccessful, whether they triumph or not; let them do their duty, and rest satisfied.

When a man drinks wine at dinner, he begins to be better pleased with himself.

Few things are necessary to make the wise man happy while no amount of material wealth would satisfy a fool. I am not a fool.

He that said it was not good for man to be alone, placed the celibate amongst the inferior states of perfection.

The ideal man is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy.

A man's happiness consists in the free exercise of his highest faculties.

Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those who have leisure.

For pleasure is a state of soul, and to each man that which he is said to be a lover of is pleasant.

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.

Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.

A man's wealth can...also be measured by what he doesn't have and doesn't want. When he wants little, he is a rich man.

A covetous man's penny is a stone.

The greatest part of what we say and do is really unnecessary. If a man takes this to heart, he will have more leisure and less uneasiness.

Where a man can live, he can also live well.

I do not understand what the man who is happy wants in order to be happier.

I begin to see that a man's got to be in his own heaven to be happy.

Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.

The happily married man with a large family is the test pilot for me.

We can better see what we don't have. The other man's grass is always greener and now we can actually go and visit his grass much more and feel the absence of green in our own lives.

Men talk about Bible miracles because there is no miracle in their lives. Cease to gnaw that crust. There is ripe fruit over your head.