We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory. -
Bern Williams
Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy. -
Lao Tzu [Lao Tse, Laozi]
Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty. -
Socrates
True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander. -
Charles Caleb Colton
Contentment preserves one even from catching cold. Has a woman who knew that she was well-dressed ever caught cold? No, not even when she had scarcely a rag to her back. -
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Happiness and contentment in life reside less in the transient mansions, spa's and international playgrounds of the rich, but more in the permanent residence of the heart and mind. -
Joseph P. Martino
Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence. -
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire. -
Thomas Fuller
Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship. -
Buddha [Siddhartha Gautama]
