Quotes About Contentment

...a beggar's kingdom is better than a proud man's delusion.

We like the fine extravagance of that philosopher who declared that no man was as rich as all men ought to be.

Asked, Who is the rich man? Epictetus replied, ?He who is content.

Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.

I am an old man who will live until I die," Anselmo said.

Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.

But what are years, what are months!" he would exclaim. "Why count the days, when even one day is enough for man to know all happiness.

The more a man possesses over and above what he uses, the more careworn he becomes.

One meal a day is enough for a lion, and it ought to be for a man.

No man can make haste to be rich without going against the will of God, in which case it is the one frightful thing to be successful.

Give me a good sharp knife and a good sharp cheese and I'm a happy man.

I went over the heads of the things a man reckons desirable. No doubt invisibility made it possible to get them, but it made it impossible to enjoy them when they are got.

There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man--the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired.

Very few men acquire wealth in such a manner as to receive pleasure from it.

We need to learn how to want what we have NOT to have what we want in order to get steady and stable Happiness

When in the body of a donkey, enjoy the taste of grass.

I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want.

What is done let us leave alone.

Cuántas Madame Bovary, como en el siglo XIX, hay ahora en Santiago de Chile de dos mil y tantos!

Prayer and comfortable living are incompatible.

do not try to get so much that you achieve nothing. Look

you will never lack so much of the water of comfort that your thirst will be intolerable;

The happy result of detachment is inner freedom, freedom from worry about bodily comfort, honor, and wealth. Considering

la verdadera humildad está mucho en estar muy prontos en contentarse con lo que el Señor quisiere hacer de ellos, y siempre hallarse indignos de llamarse sus siervos.