| Author |
Quotes |
| Aesop | Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything. |
| Allan K Chalmers | The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. |
| Benjamin Franklin | Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor. |
| Anonymous | Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times. |
| Bill Copeland | Try to be like the turtle -- at ease in your own shell. |
| Burton Hills | Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life. |
| Charles Lamb | My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more. |
| Christian Nestell Bovee | One who is contented with what he has done will never become famous for what he will do. He has lain down to die, and the grass is already over him. |
| Cynthia Nelms | Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy. |
| Eugene O'Neill | One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers. |
| Fred Estabrook | A man who is contented with what he has done will never become famous for what he will do. |
| Fred Estabrook | A man who is contented with what he has done will never become famous for what he will do. |
| Frederick Douglass | Whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom. |
| French Proverb | What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others. |
| G C Lichtenberg | Nothing contributes more to a person's peace of mind than having no opinions at all. |
| George Moore | A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it. |
| Henry Miller | I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive. |
| Hung Ko | The contented man can be happy with what appears to be useless. |
| Hung Ko | The contented man can be happy with what appears to be useless. |
| James Mackintosh | It is right to be contented with what we have, but never with what we are. |
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