Quotes About Contentment

He is rich enough who does not want bread.

I like neither new clothes nor new kinds of food.

As a consequence while we had a roof over our heads, food on the table, and clothes to wear to school we were constantly conscious of being of modest means.

I don't feel the need for unusual or glamorous foods like caviar, and I tend more towards ordinary, satisfying food.

Books cannot always please, however good; Minds are not ever craving for their food.

Food is the most primitive form of comfort.

He who needs only coarse food, water and drink, and as pillow his folded arms will find happiness without further search.

I'm certainly well taken care of in terms of food and clothes.

I do not drink more than a sponge.

He who feasts every day, feasts no day.

Oh thrice and four times happy... those who plant cabbages.

I don't confuse my digestive system, I just season simple food with hunger

The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.

There must be more to life than having everything.

Remember that not to be happy is not to be grateful.

To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.

The summit of pleasure is the elimination of all that gives pain.

The end of pain we take as happiness.

Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.

Who is content with nothing possesses all things.

Let those who think I have said too little and those who think I have said too much, forgive me; and let those who think I have said just enough thank God with me.

A wise man cares not for what he cannot have.

Sufficiency's enough for men of sense.