Quotes About Contentment

All those who love Nature she loves in return, and will richly reward, not perhaps with the good things, as they are commonly called, but with the best things of this world-not with money and titles, horses and carriages, but with bright and happy thoughts, contentment and peace of mind.

Try to realize all the blessings you have, and you will find perhaps that they are more than you suppose.

False pleasures come from without and are imperfect: happiness is internal and our own.

Happiness is a condition of mind not a result of circumstances.

The key to contentment is to consider. Consider who you are and be satisfied with that. Consider what you have and be satisfied with that. Consider what God's doing and be satisfied with that.

It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.

Maybe I should have wanted less. Maybe I should have ignored the bowl in me burning to be filled. Maybe I should have wanted less.

Children internalize their parents' unhappiness. Fortunately, they absorb our contentment just as readily.

For greed all nature is too little.

A good mind possesses a kingdom.

Where fear is, happiness is not.

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.

What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.

A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.

The primary sign of a well-ordered mind is a man's ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company.

The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and perturbations to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.