Quotes on Contentment
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
Henry David Thoreau
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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.
James Oppenheim
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Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
Marquis de Condorcet
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The most effectual means of being secure against pain is to retire within ourselves, and to suffice for our own happiness. Those, which depend on ourselves, are the only pleasures a wise man will count on: for nothing is ours which another may deprive us of. Hence the inestimable value of intellectual pleasures. Ever in our power, always leading us to something new, never cloying, we ride, serene and sublime, above the concerns of this mortal world, contemplating truth and nature, matter and motion, the laws which bind up their existence, and that eternal being who made and bound them up by these laws. Let this be our employ. Leave the bustle and tumult of society to those who have not talents to occupy themselves without them.
Thomas Jefferson
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Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
Victor Hugo
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What difference does it make how much there is laid away in a man's safe or in his barns, how many head of stock he grazes or how much capital he puts out at interest, if he is always after what is another's and only counts what he has yet to get, never what he has already. You ask what is the proper limit to a person's wealth? First, having what is essential, and second, having what is enough.
Seneca
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It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
Seneca
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If you're patting yourself on the back about what you did yesterday, you haven't done much today.
Lou Holtz
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How can they say my life isn't a success? Have I not for more than 60 years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
Logan Smith
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He enjoys much who is thankful for little; a grateful mind is both a great and a happy mind.
Thomas Secker
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Do not pursue what is illusory - property and position: all that is gained at the expense of your nerves decade after decade and can be confiscated in one fell night. Live with a steady superiority over life - don't be afraid of misfortune, and do not yearn after happiness; it is after all, all the same: the bitter doesn't last forever, and the sweet never fills the cup to overflowing.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.
Henry Miller
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The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove.
Samuel Johnson
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The luxury I advocate has nothing to do with money. It cannot be bought. It is the reward of those who have no fear of discomfort.
Jean Cocteau
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To enjoy life, you don't need fancy nonsense, but you do need to control your time and realize that most things just aren't as serious as you make them out to be.
Timothy Ferriss
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Take me and cast me where you will; I shall still be possessor of the divinity within me, serene and content.
Marcus Aurelius
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The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it's all we'll need.
Ann Richards
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If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
Epicurus
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Epictetus
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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
Vernon Howard
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Learn to live a life of honest poverty, if you must, and turn to more important matters than transporting gold to your grave.
Anonymous
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I make the most of all that comes, and the least of all that goes.
Sara Teasdale
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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.
Epicurus
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Compare what you want with what you have, and you'll be unhappy; compare what you deserve with what you have, and you'll be happy.
Evan Esar
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When we cannot find contentment in ourselves it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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It is man's duty to live in conformity with the divine will, and this means, firstly, bringing his life into line with 'nature's laws', and secondly, resigning himself completely and uncomplainingly to whatever fate may send him. Only by living thus, and not setting too high a value on things which can at any moment be taken away from him, can he discover that true, unshakeable peace and contentment to which ambition, luxury and above all avarice are among the greatest obstacles.
Seneca
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It is essential to make oneself used to putting up with a little. Even the wealthy and the well provided are continually met and frustrated by difficult times and situations. It is in no man's power to have whatever he wants; but he has it in his power not to wish for what he hasn't got, and cheerfully make the most of the things that do come his way.
Seneca
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You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.
George Horace Lorimer
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A cheery relaxation is man's natural state, just as nature itself is relaxed. A waterfall is concerned only with being itself, not with doing something it considers waterfall-like.
Vernon Howard
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[B]eyond poverty, beyond the point that the material needs are reasonably satisfied, only from within is peace.
Richard Feynman
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No man is rich who is unsatisfied, but who wants nothing possess his heart's desire.
Richard Feynman
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Are you helping people? Are they happy? Are you happy? Are you profitable? Isn't that enough?
Derek Sivers
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Don't wish to be a general, or a senator, or a consul, but to be free; and the only way to this is a contempt of things not in our own control.
Epictetus
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If a person's scale of values is based primarily on material wealth, that person will be in difficulty all of his or her life. Do not pay much attention to fame, power and money. Some day you will meet a person who cares for none of these, and then you will know how poor you are.
Rudyard Kipling
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