| Author |
Quotes |
| James Mackintosh | It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are. |
| Jim Fiebig | If you can look back on your life with contentment, you have one of man's most precious gifts -- a selective memory. |
| Johann Von Goethe | He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home. |
| John Balguy | Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase. |
| John Balguy | Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase. |
| John Bunyan | If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot. |
| John Dryden | Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. |
| John Fowles | Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man. |
| Lin Yutang | The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desire for things beyond your reach. |
| Mohammed | Patience is the key to contentment. |
| Pietro Aretino | They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment. |
| Plautus | If you are content, you have enough to live comfortably. |
| Plutarch | Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied. |
| Robert Anthony | Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy. |
| Scottish Proverb | Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead. |
| Socrates | Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty. |
| Spanish Proverb | Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get. |
| Spanish Proverb | Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get. |
| Teiga | To the right, books; to the left, a tea-cup. In front of me, the fireplace; behind me, the post. There is no greater happiness than this. |
| Thomas C Haliburton | Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence. |
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