Quotes about Contentment

It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves.

Man cannot live without joy. That is why one deprived of spiritual joys goes over to carnal pleasures.

Nothing to be done. I'm beginning to come round to that opinion.

In all pleasure hope is a considerable part

Pleasure itself is not a vice

None are happy but by the anticipation of change. The change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

With these [Love, Patience, Faith] celestial Wisdom calms the mind,And makes the happiness she does not find.

It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content. No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of the spring: no man can, at the same time, fill his cup from the source and from the mouth of the Nile.