Often when looking at a mass of things for sale, he would say – ‘How many things I have no need of!’.
Content Quotes
Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.
Nothing contributes more to a person’s peace of mind than having no opinions at all.
It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutified his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion.
In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
To the right, books; to the left, a tea-cup. In front of me, the fireplace; behind me, the post. There is no greater happiness than this.
Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor. Love enough […]
It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are.
Seek among men, from beggar to millionaire, one who is contented with his lot, and you will not find one such in a thousand… Today we must buy an overcoat and galoshes, tomorrow a watch and a chain; the next day we must install ourselves in an apartment with a sofa and a bronze lamp; […]
