Post #3074

Contentment is natural wealth — a man is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
—Socrates

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.

—Sir Edward Dyer

Post #2355

Contentment will make a cottage look as fair as a palace.
—William Secker

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

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

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

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

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

Post #1757

Contentment consisteth not in heaping more fuel, but taking away some fire.

—Thomas Fuller

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

Post #1214

Contented with your lot, you will live wisely.
—Horace

Post #1212

A brave man or a fortunate one is able to bear envy.
—Publilius Syrus