Quotes on Contentment
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
Henry David Thoreau
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.
James Oppenheim
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
Marquis de Condorcet
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
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
Victor Hugo
What difference does it make how much there is laid away in a man's safe or in his barns, how many head of stock he grazes or how much capital he puts out at interest, if he is always after what is another's and only counts what he has yet to get, never what he has already. You ask what is the proper limit to a person's wealth? First, having what is essential, and second, having what is enough.
Seneca
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
Seneca
If you're patting yourself on the back about what you did yesterday, you haven't done much today.
Lou Holtz
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
He enjoys much who is thankful for little; a grateful mind is both a great and a happy mind.
Thomas Secker
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
If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.
Henry Miller
The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove.
Samuel Johnson
The luxury I advocate has nothing to do with money. It cannot be bought. It is the reward of those who have no fear of discomfort.
Jean Cocteau
To enjoy life, you don't need fancy nonsense, but you do need to control your time and realize that most things just aren't as serious as you make them out to be.
Timothy Ferriss
This is the source.
Take me and cast me where you will; I shall still be possessor of the divinity within me, serene and content.
Marcus Aurelius
This is the source.
The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it's all we'll need.
Ann Richards
If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
Epicurus
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Epictetus
You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
Vernon Howard
Learn to live a life of honest poverty, if you must, and turn to more important matters than transporting gold to your grave.
Anonymous
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