Quotes about Contentment

Some make gods of their pleasures; some choose Mammon for their god; some make gods of their own supposed excellencies, or the outward advantages they have above their neighbors: some choose one thing for their god, and others another. But men can be happy in no other God but the God of Israel: he is the only fountain of happiness.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

To be rich is not the end, but only a change, of worries.

Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

He who is calm disturbs neither himself nor others.

Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully.

I was not; I have been; I am not; I do not mind.

Nothing is enough to the man for whom enough is too little.

We must exercise ourselves in thte things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you have was once among the things you only hoped for.