Quotes about contentment

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.James Oppenheim

• happiness
• contentment

The most effectual means of being secure against pain is to retire within ourselves, and to suffice for our own happiness. Those, which depend on ourselves, are the only pleasures a wise man will count on: for nothing is ours which another may deprive us of. Hence the inestimable value of intellectual pleasures. Ever in our power, always leading us to something new, never cloying, we ride, serene and sublime, above the concerns of this mortal world, contemplating truth and nature, matter and motion, the laws which bind up their existence, and that eternal being who made and bound them up by these laws. Let this be our employ. Leave the bustle and tumult of society to those who have not talents to occupy themselves without them.Thomas Jefferson

• intellect
• contentment

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.Seneca

• money
• contentment
• greed

How can they say my life isn't a success? Have I not for more than 60 years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?Logan Smith

• success
• contentment

Do not pursue what is illusory - property and position: all that is gained at the expense of your nerves decade after decade and can be confiscated in one fell night. Live with a steady superiority over life - don't be afraid of misfortune, and do not yearn after happiness; it is after all, all the same: the bitter doesn't last forever, and the sweet never fills the cup to overflowing.Alexander Solzhenitsyn

• happiness
• contentment
• stress