Heath Byers - William Shakespeare - Aesop - Epicurus - John Keats - Horace - Socrates - Swami Sivananda - Mohammed - Thomas C Haliburton - Alain de Botton - Leo Tolstoy -
4,105. Contentment is next to impossible when one gazes upon the reckless abuses of Earth. (Earth & Content) Heath Byers
68,379. He that commends me to mine own content
Commends me to the thing I cannot get. William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors I ii 33-34, Antipholus re Syracuse
68,387. Desiring this man’s art, and that man's scope,
With what I most enjoy contented least. William Shakespeare, Sonnet 29
68,380. Be content with your lot. One cannot be first in everything. Aesop
68,381. Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not. Remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. Epicurus
68,382. In pale contented sort of discontent. John Keats, Lamia
68,383. How is it, Maecenas, that no one lives contented with his lot, whether he had planned it for himself or fate has flung him into it, but yet he praises those who follow different paths? Horace, Satires
68,384. Contentment is natural wealth; luxury is artificial poverty. Socrates
68,390. He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have. Socrates
68,385. There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore acquire contentment. Swami Sivananda
68,386. 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. Lin Yutang
68,388. Patience is the key to contentment. (Contentment & Patience) Mohammed
68,389. Contentment is after all simply refined indolence. (Contentment & Laziness) Thomas C Haliburton
68,391. Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice. Alain de Botton
98,735. If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content. (Perfection & Content) Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina