Inspirations

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.