Quotes about Contentment

Cottage of content was better than the Palace of cold splendour, and that where love was, all was.

So it was done to the general contentment; and if Gruff and Glum didn't in the course of the afternoon splice the main brace, it was not for want of the means of inflicting that outrage on the feelings of the Infant Bands of Hope.

Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never have had it?

He may not have money, but he always has what is much better—family, my dear.

If nothing worse than Ale happens to us, we are well off.

If I could have known Cicero, and been his friend, and talked with him in his retirement at Tusculum (beau-ti-ful Tusculum l), I could have died contented.

He was a mere child in the world, but he didn't cry for the moon. He said to the world, 'Go your several ways in peace! Wear red coats, blue coats, lawn-sleeves, put pens behind your ears, wear aprons; go after glory, holiness, commerce, trade, any object you prefer; only - let Harold Skimpole live!

Worldly goods are divided unequally, and man must not repine.

It is always the secure who are humble.

No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

No man that lives can satisfy everybody. The recipe for perfect peace is, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.