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Encourage the Development of the Characteristics of the Hopeful: Self-Esteem

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.  

- Joseph Addison  

Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase.  

- John Balguy  

I have learned in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.  

- Philippians 4:11, Bible  

If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.  

- John Bunyan  

Try to be like the turtle, at ease in your own shell.  

- Bill Copeland  

Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.  

- John Dryden  

Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.  

- Benjamin Franklin  

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He who is content. Who is that? Nobody.  

- Benjamin Franklin  

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.  

- William E Gladstone  

When we cannot find contentment in ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.  

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld  

A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else.  

- John Locke  

It is right to be contented with what we have, but never with what we are.  

- James Mackintosh  

To accept what you are is to be content, and contentment is the greatest wealth. To work with patience is to gather power.  

- Vimalia Mcclure  

Riches are not from abundance of worldly goods, but from a contented mind.  

- Mohammed  

If you are content, you have enough to live comfortably.  

- Titus Maccius Plautus  

Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.  

- Plutarch  

A Sunday well-spent brings a week of content.  

- Proverb  

What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others.  

- French Proverb  

Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.  

- Spanish Proverb  

The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.  

- Bertrand Russell  

My crown is in my heart, not on my head, Nor decked with diamonds and Indian stones, Nor to be seen: My crown is called content: A crown it is, that seldom kings enjoy.  

- William Shakespeare  

Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.  

- Socrates  

He is rich who is content with the least; for contentment is the wealth of nature.  

- Socrates  

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.  

- Teiga  

Contentment is not the fulfillment of what you want, but the realization of how much you already have.  

- Source Unknown  

When you can think of yesterday without regret and tomorrow without fear, you are near contentment.  

- Source Unknown  

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