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“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”
— Epicurus
“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not. Remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”
“I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.”
— Jane Austen
“He who is contented is rich.”
— Lao Tzu
“No one is happy who does not think himself so.”
— Publilius Syrus
“True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.”
— Seneca
“I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.”
— Emily Brontë
“I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires rather than in attempting to satisfy them”
— John Stuart Mill
“It is not the man who has too little but the man who craves more that is poor.”
“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not.”
“Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.”
— Gautama Buddha
“Contentment is natural wealth; luxury is artificial poverty.”
— Socrates
“To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter; to be thrilled by the stars at night — these are some of the rewards of the simple life.”
— John Burroughs
“He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.”
“The greatest wealth is to live content with little.”
— Virgil
“In a consumer society contentment is a radical proposition”
— Robin Wall Kimmerer
“It is not the man who has too little that is poor, but the one who hankers after more.”
“Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction”
— Erich Fromm
“Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.”
“To live content with small means to seek elegance rather than luxury.”
— Thomas Moore
“A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.”
— Joseph Addison
“True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self.”
“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“One who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.”
“We make ourselves rich by making our wants few.”
“When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.”
“He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.”
— Epictetus
“Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have lived it; I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.”
— Michel de Montaigne
— Plato
“True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it.”
— G.K. Chesterton
“It is not the man who has too little who is poor but the one who hankers after more.”
“Peace and contentment are two of natures greatest blessings that come from within.”
— Marcus Garvey
“If we are not grateful for what we already have what makes us think we would be happy with more.”
— Wayne Muller
“True happiness arises from the enjoyment of one's self.”
“Retire into yourself for the rational principle that rules has this nature: to be content with itself”
— Marcus Aurelius
“Desire is a contract you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want.”
— Naval Ravikant
“Joy is not in things; it is in us.”
— Richard Wagner
“The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.”
— James M. Barrie
“With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.”
— Lope de Vega
— Unknown
“It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.”
— Diogenes
“Wealth consists not in having great possessions but in having few wants.”
“Be content with what you have rejoice in the way things are when you realize there is nothing lacking the whole world belongs to you”
“Better a handful of dried dates and content therewith than to own the Gate of Peacocks and be kicked in the eye by a broody camel.”
“Health is the greatest gift contentment the greatest wealth faithfulness the best relationship.”
— Buddha
“He has the most who is content with the least.”
“The sole cause of human unhappiness is that people do not know how to sit quietly in a room”
— Blaise Pascal
“Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“There is a saying in Tibetan that at the door of the miserable rich man sleeps the contented beggar. The point of this saying is not that poverty is a virtue but that happiness does not come from wealth but from setting limits on desire.”
— Dalai Lama
“To be content with little is difficult; to be content with much, impossible.”
— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
“He is richest who is content with the least, for contentment is the wealth of nature.”
“He who waits for much can expect little.”
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
“My great concern is not whether you have failed but whether you are content with your failure”
— Abraham Lincoln
“He is happy that knoweth not himself to be otherwise.”
— Thomas Fuller
“He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.”
“Be content with what you have rejoice in the way things are when you realize nothing is lacking the whole world belongs to you”
“When you realize there is nothing lacking the whole world belongs to you.”
“Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking the whole world belongs to you.”
— Laozi
“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”
“Not what we have but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.”
“Rest satisfied with doing well and leave others to talk of you as they please.”
— Pythagoras
“A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.”
— Aesop
“Content makes poor men rich and discontent makes rich men poor.”
“The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.”
— William Saroyan
“Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.”
— Boethius
“The contented man can be happy with what appears to be useless.”
— Zhuangzi
“The person who has not learned to be happy and content while completely alone for an hour a day, or a week, has missed life's greatest serenity.”
— Lin Yutang
“The secret of happiness you see is not found in seeking more but in developing the capacity to enjoy less”
“Who is rich? He who rejoices in his portion.”
— Ben Zoma
“To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion.”
— William Ellery Channing
“Nothing is miserable unless you think it so and conversely every lot is happy if you are content with it”
“When you are content to be simply yourself and dont compare or compete everyone will respect you”
“Wealth consists not in having great possessions but in having few wants”
“The contentment that comes from within is the only real wealth.”
— Thiruvalluvar
“There is a saying in Tibetan that at the door of the miserable rich man sleeps the contented beggar”
“Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.”
— Spanish Proverb
“The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts.”
— Samuel Johnson
“If you look for perfection you will never be content.”
— Leo Tolstoy
“When you are content to simply be and dont compare or compete everyone will respect you and healing flows to those who are content”
“To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.”
— Cicero
“Be content with what you have. Rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking the whole world belongs to you.”
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