Quotes about Contentment
The truly proud man is satisfied with his own good opinion, and does not seek to make converts to it.
- William Hazlitt
A little house well filled, a little land well tilled, and a little wife well willed, are great riches.
- Anonymous
'Tis a gift to be simple, 'tis a gift to be free. 'Tis a gift to come round to where we ought to be. And when we find a place that feels just right, We will be in the valley of love and delight.
- Anonymous
Prudence keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.
- Samuel Johnson
I exist as I am, that is enough, If no other in the world be aware, I sit content, And if each and all be aware, I sit content.
- Walt Whitman
Do not wish to be anything but what you are.
- Francis de Sales
Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling that desire.
- Epictetus
He who complains, sins.
- Francis de Sales
Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral, and subject to chance.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
The really happy man is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.
- Anonymous
Bad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely contented with the life he is living, when there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger.
- Phillips Brooks
Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
- Charles Dickens