Quotes About Contentment

Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing; those who are not quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world.

Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.

I strove with none, for none was worth my strife;Nature I loved; and next to Nature, Art.I warm'd both hands before the fire of life;It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.

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

I strove with none for none were worth my strife. Nature I loved and next to nature, Art. I warmed both hands before the fire of life; it sinks, and I am ready to depart. - Walter Savage Landor 1776-1864

Vacant heart, and hand, and eye,Easy live and quiet die.

They should consider themselves richer since they are now more robust in putting up with privations. It is better to need less than to have more.

Vacation syndrome is dangerously seductive. You actually believe that this magical place you have come to allows you to be the contented, stress-free person you really are. There's a lot of vacation syndrome in Paris.

I decided that my life was a gift from God, and my happiness was not dependent upon children, a husband, or any of the other things I had once thought were the source of happiness. It's about being able to accept the bitter and sweet parts of life.~Lois Troyer

What I will teach you is the ability to become rich as speedily as possible. How excited you are to hear the news! And rightly so; I will lead you by a shortcut to the greatest wealth. . . . My dear Lucilius, not wanting something is just as good as having it. The important thing either way is the same – freedom from worry.

He who has need of riches feels fear on their account. But no man enjoys a blessing that brings anxiety. He is always trying to add a little more. While he puzzles over increasing his wealth, he forgets how to use it.

Don't imagine having things that you don't have. Rather, pick the best of the things that you do have and think of how much you would want them if you didn't have them. Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 7.27

Roko Belic, who believes that "gratitude is a shortcut to happiness.

But the happiest people he encountered —including some living extremely modestly—had a strong connection to those around them. "They laughed and really enjoyed being around the people they love.

We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

I have no ambition to shine beyond my abilities.

That happy age when a man can be idle with impunity.

The only happy author in this world is he who is below the care of reputation.

He who is able to accept everything gladly from the Lord - including darkness, dryness, flatness - and completely disregard self is he who lives for Him." -

Quietude, which some men cannot abide because it reveals their inward poverty, is as a palace of cedar to the wise, for along its hallowed courts the King in His beauty deigns to walk." CHARLES H. SPURGEON

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self." MAY SARTON

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.

When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.