The noblest mind the best contentment has.
Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails,
And honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
Yes, in the poor man's garden grow
Far more than herbs and flowers--
Kind thoughts, contentment, peace of mind,
And joy for weary hours.
We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.
Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.
Contentment consisteth not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.
Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase.
The Ass and His Masters AN ASS, belonging to an herb-seller who gave him too little food and too much work made a petition to Jupiter to be released from his present service and provided with another master. Jupiter, after warning him that he would repent his request, caused him to be sold to a tile-maker. Shortly afterwards, finding that he had heavier loads to carry and harder work in the brick-field, he petitioned for another change of master. Jupiter, telling him that it would be the last time that he could grant his request, ordained that he be sold to a tanner. The Ass found that he had fallen into worse hands, and noting his master's occupation, said, groaning: It would have been better for me to have been either starved by the one, or to have been overworked by the other of my former masters, than to have been bought by my present owner, who will even after I am dead tan my hide, and make me useful to him. He that finds discontentment in one place is not likely to find happiness in another.
One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
From labour health, from health contentment spring; Contentment opes the source of every joy.
Where wealth and freedom reign, contentment fails, And honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desire for things beyond your reach.
Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.
Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.
Patience is the key to contentment.
If you can look back on your life with contentment, you have one of man's most precious giftsâa selective memory.
It is not our circumstances that create our discontent or contentment. It is us.
Whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom.
Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase.
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desire for things beyond your reach.
One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.
Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.
Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase.