It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are.
Content Quotes
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; […]
Content so often follows form. It’s not just that we’re nice to the people we like. . . we like the people we’re nice to.
Be content to seem what you really are.
Probably there is nothing in the world so suggestive of serene contentment and perfect bliss as the spectacle of a calf chewing a dishrag, but the nearest approach to it is your reedy tenor, standing apart, in sickly attitude, with head thrown back and eyes uplifted to the moon, piping his distressing solo.
Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.
Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.
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.
There was once a man, Harry, called the Steppenwolf. He went on two legs, wore clothes and was a human being, but nevertheless he was in reality a wolf of the Steppes. He had learned a good deal of all that people of a good intelligence can, and was a fairly clever fellow. What he […]
One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.
