Quotes about Contentment

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

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.

Freedom is when you are easy in the harness.

Is detachment the answer to freedom? No, because detachment is negative - it is to be without. The answer must be positive - I must replace what I have with something better.

True happiness ... arises in the first place from the enjoyment of one's self and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

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

Books and friends should be few but good.

To spend several days in a friend's house and hunger for something to read, while you are treading on costly carpets, and sitting upon luxurious chairs and sleeping upon down, is as if one were bribing your body for the sake of cheating your mind

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

I'm not interested in money, I just want to be wonderful.

Never regret anything, because at one time it was exactly what you wanted.