A good mind possesses a kingdom.
—Seneca
Showing posts with label contentment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label contentment. Show all posts
Sunday, August 17, 2025
Sunday, May 30, 2021
Post #3074
Contentment is natural wealth — a man is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
—Socrates
Tuesday, June 20, 2017
Post #2362
Some have too much, yet still do crave;
I have little, and seek no more:
They are but poor, though much they have,
And I am rich with little store;
They poor, I rich; they beg, I give;
They lack, I have; they pine, I live.
Friday, June 09, 2017
Thursday, February 11, 2016
Post #2009
"I never complained of my condition but once," said an old man — "when my feet were bare and I had no money to buy shoes; but I met a man without feet, and became contented."
—Unknown
Wednesday, February 10, 2016
Post #2008
Few things are needful to make the wise man happy, but nothing satisfies the fool; and this is the reason why so many of mankind are miserable.
—François de La Rochefoucauld
Thursday, January 21, 2016
Post #1994
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
Wednesday, May 06, 2015
Post #1808
Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth so far as it makes us of benefit to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.
—Plutarch
—Plutarch
Monday, March 09, 2015
Post #1766
If thou desire not to be poor, desire not to be too rich. He is rich, not that possesses much, but he that covets no more; and he is poor, not that enjoys little, but he that wants too much. The contented mind wants nothing which it hath not; the covetous mind wants, not only what it hath not, but likewise what it hath.
—Francis Quarles
—Francis Quarles
Tuesday, February 24, 2015
Post #1757
Contentment consisteth not in heaping more fuel, but taking away some fire.
—Thomas Fuller
Friday, February 20, 2015
Post #1755
I asked an experienced elder who had profited by his knowledge of the world, "What course should I pursue to obtain prosperity?" He replied, "Contentment—if you are able, practise contentment."
—Khajah Selman
—Khajah Selman
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Monday, March 18, 2013
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Post #269
What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.
—Bob Dylan
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—Bob Dylan
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