Contentment Quotes

"If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time" "A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety" "You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept" "Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get." "Men find happiness neither by means of the body nor through possessions but through uprightness and wisdom" "People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others" "Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse" "The greatest wealth is to live content with little." "Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body" "He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper but he is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance" "We need very little to make us happy; we need more to keep us that way." "Helped are those who are content to be themselves; they will never lack mystery in their lives and the joys of self-discovery will be constant." "With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?" "It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple." "The more you have, the more you want" "Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear" "He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another" "The key to a happy life is to learn to control the others" "By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich" "Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude."