Contentment preserves one from catching cold. Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold? No, not even when she had scarcely a rag on her back.
When you are disposed to be vain of your mental acquirements, look up to those who are more accomplished than yourself, that you may be fired with emulation; but when you feel dissatisfied with your circumstances, look down on those beneath you, that you may learn contentment.
Give what thou canst, without Thee we are poor; And with Thee rich, take what Thou wilt away.
Nature teaches us simplicity and contentment, because in its presence we realize we need very little to be happy.
Contentment: The smother of invention.
I am thankful when I am hungry because then I know that when I eat, the food will taste better. Life has taught me that my true contentment rests in hope, and the pleasure itself is secondary. It is self-awareness, not happiness, that maintains peace.
The highest point outward things can bring unto, is the contentment of the mind; with which no estate can be poor, without which all estates will be miserable.
I don't think of myself as making art. I do what I do because I want to, because painting is the best way I've found to get along with myself.
Not contentment, but more power; not peace at any price, but war; not virtue, but efficiency (virtue in the Renaissance sense, virtu , virtue free of moral acid).
Always receive with equal contentment from God's hand either consolations or sufferings, peace or distress, health or illness. Ask nothing, refuse nothing, but always be ready to do and to suffer anything that comes from His Providence.
Contentment gives peace and joy in our minds and hearts, which is the reward of living God's way.
Contentment is natural wealth.
Earthly greatness is a nice thing, and requires so much chariness in the managing, as the contentment of it cannot requite.
A grateful person is rich in contentment. An ungrateful person suffers in the poverty of endless discontentment.
Contentment may be the most powerful Financial Principle. You can give more, avoid debt, and live better.
If one's life is simple, contentment has to come.
Live with the gods. And he does so who constantly shows them that his soul is satisfied with what is assigned to him.
When we do what is right, we have contentment, peace and happiness.
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
Pegging your contentment to the overall state of the world rather than of your own life: the basis of morality, or a sort of madness?