Quotes about Contentment
There was nothin to set a man's mind at ease like wakin up in the morning and not havin to decide who you were.
- Cormac McCarthy
Account no man happy till he dies.
- Euripides
Life is short; this being so, who would pursue great things and not bear with what is at hand? These are the ways of madmen and men of evil counsel, at least in my judgment.
- Euripides
For men are made for happiness, and any one who is completely happy has a right to say to himself, 'I am doing God's will on earth.'
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Man's happiness really lies in contentment.
- Mahatma Gandhi
World has things which full fill man needs, but not greeds.
- Mahatma Gandhi
I am an old man and have had many worries, but most have never come to pass.
- Marcus Aurelius
There is no man so fortunate that there shall not be by him when he is dying some who are pleased with what is going to happen.
- Marcus Aurelius
Thou seest how few be the things, the which if a man has at his command his life flows gently on and is divine.
- Marcus Aurelius
If all men were rich, all men would be poor.
- Mark Twain
a man possessed with peace is always smiling
- Milan Kundera
Only a man who is happy can create happiness in others.
- Paulo Coelho