Quotes about Contentment
Prudence keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.
— Samuel Johnson
I exist as I am, that is enough, If no other in the world be aware, I sit content, And if each and all be aware, I sit content.
— Walt Whitman
Do not wish to be anything but what you are.
— Francis de Sales
Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling that desire.
— Epictetus
He who complains, sins.
— Francis de Sales
Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral, and subject to chance.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
The really happy man is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.
— Anonymous
Bad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely contented with the life he is living, when there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger.
— Phillips Brooks
Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
— Charles Dickens
All of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
— Dale Carnegie
Do not look back on happiness, or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.
— Henry Ward Beecher
A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments.
— Samuel Johnson