Quotes about Contentment
Do not lose your inward peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.
- Francis de Sales
The art of life consists in taking each event which befalls us with a contented mind, confident of good. ... With this method ... rejoice always, though in the midst of sorrows, and possess all things, though destitute of everything.
- James Freeman Clarke
True contentment is the power of getting of any situation all that there is in it.
- GK Chesterton
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.
- Marianne Williamson
Thank God for dirty dishes; they have a tale to tell. While other folks go hungry, we're eating pretty well. With home, and health, and happiness, we shouldn't want to fuss; For by this stack of evidence, God's very good to us.
- Anonymous
Even though we can't have all we want, we ought to be thankful we don't get all we deserve.
- Anonymous
The happiness of any given life is to be measured not by its joys and pleasures, but by the extent to which it has been free from suffering, from positive evil.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
He is a man of sense who does not grieve for what he has not, but rejoices in what he has.
- Epictetus
He has enough who is contented with little.
- Anonymous
More than enough is too much.
- Anonymous
Nothing is enough to the man for whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth is unhappy, though he is master of the world.
- Epicurus