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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world; and if, in the present life, his happiness arises from the subduing of his desires, it will arise in the next from the gratification of them. See quote detail

An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with. See quote detail

Content has a kindly influence on the soul of man, in respect of every being to whom he stands related. It extinguishes all murmuring, repining, and ingratitude toward that Being who has allotted us our part to act in the world. It destroys all inordinate ambition; gives sweetness to the conversation, and serenity to all the thoughts; and if it does not bring riches, it does the same thing by banishing the desire of them. See quote detail

Contentment comes not so much from great wealth as from few wants. See quote detail

Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty. See quote detail

Contentment produces, in some measure, all those effects which the alchymist ascribes to what he calls the philosopher's stone; and if it does not bring riches, it docs the same thing by banishing the desire of them. If it cannot remove the disquietudes arising from a man's mind, body, or fortune, it makes him easy under them. See quote detail

He is well paid that is well satisfied. See quote detail

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have. See quote detail

I am always content with what happens; for I know that what God chooses is better than what I choose. See quote detail

I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness; glad of other men's good, content with my harm. See quote detail

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. See quote detail

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 growing over him. See quote detail

The contented man is never poor; the discontented never rich. See quote detail

The fountain of content must spring up in the mind; and he who has so little knowledge of human nature as to see happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts, and multiply the griefs which he proposes to remove. See quote detail

There is a sense in which a man looking at the present in the light of the future, and taking his whole being into account, may be contented with his lot: that is Christian contentment. - But if a man has come to that point where he is so content that he says, "I do not want to know any more, or do any more, or be any more," he is in a state in which he ought to be changed into a mummy! - Of all hideous things a mummy is the most hideous; and of mummies, the most hideous are those that are running about the streets and talking. See quote detail

True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander. See quote detail

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it. See quote detail

You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all. See quote detail