Quotes about Contentment
The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
I do not understand what the man who is happy wants in order to be happier.
- Cicero
I begin to see that a man's got to be in his own heaven to be happy.
- Mark Twain
Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.
- Muhammad Ali
Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.
- Laurence Sterne
There are three things against which the wise man guards: lust when young, quarrels when strong, and covetousness when old.
- Confucius
If any be unhappy, let him remember that he is unhappy by reason of himself alone. For God hath made all men to enjoy felicity and constancy of good.
- Epictetus
Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men.
- Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Prosperity knits a man to the world.
- CS Lewis
I would much rather be the trusting child of a rich Father, than a beggar at the door of worldly men.
- Corrie Ten Boom
Gratitude means you stop focusing on what you don't have and start focusing on what you do have.
- Terri Savelle Foy
As Joyce Meyer candidly puts it, "Complain and Remain.
- Terri Savelle Foy