Contentment Quotes
Here are some of the best 'Contentment' quotations and sayings around.
|
|
|
|
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.
|
 |
|
|
|
An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
|
|
|
|
|
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.
|
|
|
|
|
Contentment comes not so much from great wealth as from few wants.
|
|
|
|
|
Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
|
|
|
|
|
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.
|
|
|
|
|
He is well paid that is well satisfied.
|
|
|
|
|
He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
|
|
|
|
|
I am always content with what happens; for I know that what God chooses is better than what I choose.
|
|
|
|
|
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.
|
|
|
|
|
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.
|
|
|
|
|
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.
|
|
|
|
|
The contented man is never poor; the discontented never rich.
|
|
|
|
|
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.
|
|
|
|
|
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.
|
|
|
|
|
True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.
|
|
|
|
|
Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.
|
|
|
|
|
You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.
|
|
|
|
|