822 Quotes About Contentment

Let thy discontents be thy secrets; if the world knows them 'twill despise thee and increase them.

Contentment makes a poor person rich and discontent makes a rich person poor.

The happiness state, when examined more closely, turns out not to be a point but a range, with contentment at the bottom and exaltation at the top...there are probably as many forms of happiness as there are of depression.

The Yogic path is about disentangling the built-in glitches of the human condition, which I'm going to over-simply define here as the heartbreaking inability to sustain contentment.

There are two kinds of discontent in this world. The discontent that works, and the discontent that wrings its hands. The first gets what it wants. The second loses what it has. There's no cure for the first, but success and there's no cure at all for the second.

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

What happiness the rural maid attends, In cheerful labour while each day she spends! She gratefully receives what Heav'n has sent, And, rich in poverty, enjoys content.

Those who want much, are always much in need.

All things on earth thus change, some up, some down; Content's a kingdom, and I wear that crown.