Quotes About Contentment

Yes there is a Nirvanah: it is in leading your sheep to a green pasture and in putting your child to sleep and in writing the last line of your poem.

Not he who has little but he who wishes more is poor.

He who curbs his desires will always be rich enough.

All fortune belongs to him who has a contented mind.

The greatest wealth is contentment with a little.

He is not rich that possesses much but he that is content with what he has.

Contentment is worth more than riches.

Be content with what thou hast received and smooth thy frowning forehead.

It is right to be contented with what we have never with what we are.

True contentment... is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.

And be content with such things as ye have.

True contentment depends not upon what we have a tub was large enough for Diogenes but a world was too little for Alexander.

To be content with little is difficult to be content with much impossible.

No longer forward nor behind I look in hope or fear But grateful take the good I find The best of now and here.

A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.

Be satisfied and pleased with what thou art Act cheerfully and well thou allotted part Enjoy the present hour be thankful for the past And neither fear nor wish the approaches of the last.

No one is satisfied with his fortune or dissatisfied with his intellect.

Here is my secret: I don't mind what happens.

True freedom is to be free from the desire to be free from anything.

Earthly possessions dazzle our eyes and delude us into thinking that they can provide security and freedom from anxiety. Yet all the time they are the very source of anxiety.

Without order there can be no inner satisfaction. Without inner satisfaction there can be no freedom. Without freedom there is no joy.

I think service to others is the real key to winning our own personal freedom and the road to our own happiness, our own personal contentment and fulfillment.

Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily. Epicurus taught: Pleasure, defined as freedom from pain, is the highest good.

Freedom is the total absence of concern about yourself.