Quotes about Contentment
It is of the small joys and little pleasures that the greatest of our days are built.
— Mary Anne Radmacher
true weanedness from the world don't consist in being beat off from the world by the affliction of it, but a being drawn off by the sight of something better.
— Jonathan Edwards
Some make gods of their pleasures; some choose Mammon for their god; some make gods of their own supposed excellencies, or the outward advantages they have above their neighbors: some choose one thing for their god, and others another. But men can be happy in no other God but the God of Israel: he is the only fountain of happiness.
— Jonathan Edwards
If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
— Epictetus
To be rich is not the end, but only a change, of worries.
— Epicurus
Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
— Epicurus
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
— Epicurus
He who is calm disturbs neither himself nor others.
— Epicurus
Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
— Epicurus
The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully.
— Epicurus
I was not; I have been; I am not; I do not mind.
— Epicurus
Nothing is enough to the man for whom enough is too little.
— Epicurus