Be content with your lot; one
cannot be first in everything.
?Aesop
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 is a word unknown to life;
it is also a word unknown to man.
?John Fowles
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.
?Lin Yu-t'ang
Content makes poor men rich;
discontentment makes rich men poor.
?Benjamin Franklin
Contentment is, after all,
simply refined indolence.
?Thomas C. Haliburton
The contented man can be happy
with what appears to be useless.
?Hung Ko
Patience is the key to contentment.
?Mohammed
It is right to be contented with what we
have, but never with what we are.
?James Mackintosh
If you can look back on your life with
contentment, you have one of man's most
precious gifts -- a selective memory.
?Jim Fiebig
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
It is not our circumstances that create
our discontent or contentment. It is us.
?Vivian Greene
What makes us discontented with our
condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea
we have of the happiness of others.
?French Proverb
Whenever my condition was improved,
instead of its increasing my contentment,
it only increased my desire to be free,
and set me to thinking of
plans to gain my freedom.
?Frederick Douglass
Since we cannot get what we
like, let us like what we can get.
?Spanish Proverb
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
He that is well paid is well satisfied.
?William Shakespeare
They merit more praise who know
how to suffer misery than those who
temper themselves in contentment.
?Pietro Aretino
Contentment is natural wealth,
luxury is artificial poverty.
?Socrates
A man who is contented with what he
has done will never
become famous for what he will do.
?Fred Estabrook
