Quotes About Contentment

It was wisely said, by a man of great observation, that there are as many miseries beyond riches as on this side of them.

If a man who is born to a fortune cannot make himself easier and freer than those who are not, he gains nothing.

Man is troubled by what might be called the Dog Wish, a strange and involved compulsion to be as happy and carefree as a dog

To make a man richer, give him more money of curb his desires.

The most fortunate of men, Be he a king or commoner, is he Whose welfare is assured in his own home.

No man loveth his fetters, be they made of gold.

Contentment is a kind of moral laziness; if there wasn't anything but contentment in his world, man wouldn't be any more of a success than an angleworm is

The sage seeks freedom from desire. He does not collect precious things. He learns not to hold on to ideas. He brings men back to what they have lost.

Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.

When a man sees you are happy with him but you can be just as happy having nothing to do with him, that's when he won't want to leave your side. When you are happy, you are sexy.

What a lot of things there are a man can do without.

Man cannot be satisfied by wealth. Man cannot go beyond his nature, no more than you can jump out of your body.

The small share of happiness attainable by man exists only insofar as he is able to cease to think of himself.

To admire nothing, (as most are wont to do;) Is the only method that I know, To make men happy, and to keep them so.

Tranquility is the old man's milk.

Happy is the man who has acquired the love of walking for its own sake!

Free men must live simple lives and have simple pleasures.

I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness, glad of other men's good, content with my harm.

What infinite heart's-ease Must kings neglect that private men enjoy! And what have kings that privates have not too, Save ceremony, save general ceremony?

I am for the small man who has not forgotten, for the man who loves his beer and his women and his sunlight

The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are.

Man never has what he wants, because what he wants is everything.

It's not necessary, in order to be a complete person, that I have a man. It's not the end-all, be-all of my life.

If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.