Quotes about Contentment

Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.

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.

There might be some credit in being jolly.

Oh let us love our occupations,Bless the squire and his relations,Live upon our daily rations,And always know our proper stations.

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and are famous preservers of youthful looks.

There is always something for which to be thankful.

Reflect upon your present blessings -- of which every man has many -- not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six , result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery

He went to the church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and for, and patted the children on the head, and questioned beggars, and looked down into the kitchens of homes, and up to the windows, and found that everything could yield him pleasure. He had never dreamed of any walk, that anything, could give him so much happiness. (p. 119)

Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.