822 Quotes About Contentment

Poverty destroys, riches ensnare but only the wise survive.

Pleasure exists in middle time, in time that is neither too accelerated or too slowed down.

We deserve all the blessings of the Lord with a grateful heart, there is a great contentment.

You can never have enough. "Enough" is not a defined quantity. It is elusive and fleeting in nature. Enough is more of a personal definition.

Each morning before you rise, before you even open your eyes, acknowledge the truth of this wisdom seed...that you possess it all and you have all you need.

Although the windblows terribly here,the moonlight also leaksbetween the roof planksof this ruined house.

Are you happy," he asked. "I am." she said. And then she twisted again the row of bangles on her wrist. "I'm content. My parents are happy.

The freedom to dissociate from people, ideas and ways of life you're not compatible with is one to cherish. That simple choice to walk away empowers the free being to pursue contentment.

Diversion. Sometimes, when I set to thinking the various activities of men, the dangers and troubles which they face at Court, or in war, giving rise to so many quarrels and passions, daring and often wicked enterprises and so on, I have often said the soul cause of man’s unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in a room. A man wealthy enough for life’s needs would never leave home to go to sea or besiege some fortress if he knew how to stay at home and enjoy it. (Page 32)