-
For I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. [St. Paul In Philippians 4:11] -
Bible
|
-
A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world. -
Joseph Addison
|
-
You can't have everything. Where would you put it? -
Steven Wright
|
-
I have learned in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. [Philippians 4:11] -
Bible
|
-
If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot. -
John Bunyan
|
-
There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion. -
Lord Byron
|
-
Being ''contented'' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position. -
Gilbert K Chesterton
|
-
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. It is arduous and it is rare. -
Gilbert K Chesterton
|
-
That blessed mood in which the burthen of the mystery, in which the heavy and the weary weight of all this unintelligible world is lightened. -
William Wordsworth
|
-
There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction. -
Salvador Dali
|
-
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
|
-
To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own. -
Tryon Edwards
|
-
I don't want to own anything that won't fit into my coffin. -
Fred A Allen
|
-
There are two kinds of discontent in this world. The discontent that works, and the discontent that wrings its hands. The first gets what it wants. The second loses what it has. There's no cure for the first, but success and there's no cure at all for the second. -
Gordon Graham
|
|
|
-
If the book is good, is about something that you know, and is truly written, and reading it over you see that this is so, you can let the boys yip and the noise will have that pleasant sound coyotes make on a very cold night when they are out in the snow and you are in your own cabin that you have built or paid for with your work. -
Ernest Hemingway
|
|
|
-
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 Yü tang
|
-
Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content. -
Louis L'Amour
|
-
To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problems of contentment. -
George E Woodberry
|